Michel de Montaigne 🗣️
“Not being able to govern events, I govern myself”
"He who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears."
"The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness."
“Nothing is so firmly believed as that which we least know.”

"How many things we held yesterday as articles of faith which today we tell as fables."
"There is no passion so contagious as that of fear."
"I speak the truth, not so much as I would, but as much as I dare; and I dare a little more as I grow older."

“Man is certainly stark mad; he cannot make a worm, and yet he will be making gods by dozens.”
“To forbid us anything is to make us have a mind for it.”
“Obsession is the wellspring of genius and madness.”
“Off I go, rummaging about in books for sayings which please me.”