Not being able to govern events, I govern myself - Michel de Montaigne

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Not being able to govern events, I govern myself

Michel de Montaigne

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self-government self-control

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About Michel de Montaigne

Michel de Montaigne (Michel Eyquem, lord of the manor of Montaigne, Dordogne) (28 February 1533 – 13 September 1592) was an influential French Renaissance writer, generally considered to be the inventor of the personal essay.

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Alternative Names: Michel Eyquem de Montaigne • Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha • Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha

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I listen with attention to the judgment of all men;
but so far as I can remember,
I have followed none but my own.

I myself am more ready to distort a fine saying in order to patch it on to me than to distort the thread of my argument to go in search of one.

I once took pleasure some place in seeing men, through piety, take a vow of ignorance, as of chastity, poverty, penitence. It is also castrating our disorderly appetites, to blunt that cupidity that pricks us on to the study of books, and to deprive the soul of that voluptuous complacency which tickles us with the notion of being learned.