French - Philosopher | February 28, 1533 - September 13, 1592
Not being able to govern events, I govern myself.
Michel de Montaigne
MyselfEventsBeingAbleGovern
Marriage, a market which has nothing free but the entrance.
MarriageFreeNothingMarketWhich
Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.
DeathSayThey SayUsObligations
It is the mind that maketh good or ill, That maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor.
GoodWisdomHappyMindRichPoor
My trade and art is to live.
LifeLiveArtTrade
The world is but a perpetual see-saw.
WorldPerpetual
The entire lower world was created in the likeness of the higher world. All that exists in the higher world appears like an image in this lower world; yet all this is but One.
WorldImageLikeCreatedHigher
Love to his soul gave eyes; he knew things are not as they seem. The dream is his real life; the world around him is the dream.
LifeLoveEyesSoulWorldDream
Covetousness is both the beginning and the end of the devil's alphabet - the first vice in corrupt nature that moves, and the last which dies.
NatureBeginningEndDevilFirst
I do not speak the minds of others except to speak my own mind better.
MindSpeakBetterMy OwnOthersOwn
An untempted woman cannot boast of her chastity.
WomanHerCannotBoastChastity
Fame and tranquility can never be bedfellows.
FameNeverTranquilityBedfellows
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