Not being able to govern events, I govern myself, and if they will not adapt to me, I adapt to them. - Michel de Montaigne

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Not being able to govern events, I govern myself, and if they will not adapt to me, I adapt to them.

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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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Not being able to govern events, I govern myself
self-government self-control
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Voltaire Friedrich Nietzsche Johann Wolfgang von Goethe William Hazlitt Ralph Waldo Emerson

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A man is not hurt so much by what happens, as by his opinion of what happens.
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