If you have known how to compose your life, you have done a great deal…

Michel de Montaigne
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If you have known how to compose your life, you have done a great deal more than the person who knows how to compose a book. You have done more than the one who has taken cities and empires.
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An untempted woman cannot boast of her chastity. ✨ Attributed to Essais by Michel de Montaigne, 1595.
There is nothing on which men are commonly more intent than on making a way for their opinions. ✨ Michel de Montaigne (1958). Complete Essays, p.786, Stanford University Press
Life in itself is neither good nor evil, it is the place of good and evil, according to what you make it.
The easy, gentle, and sloping path . . . is not the path of true virtue. It demands a rough and thorny road. ✨ Michel de Montaigne (1958). Complete Essays, p.308, Stanford University Press
It is not without good reason, that he who has not a good memory should never take upon him the trade of lying. ✨ Michel de Montaigne (2013). Michel de Montaigne: Selected Essays, p.11, Courier Corpo … ▶

If you have known how to compose your life, you have done a great deal more than the person who knows how to compose a book. You have done more than the one who has taken cities and empires.

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