Fame and tranquility can never be bedfellows. ✨ 'Essais' (1580) bk. 1,…

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Fame and tranquility can never be bedfellows. ✨ 'Essais' (1580) bk. 1, ch. 39
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I neither complain of the past, nor do I fear the future. ✨ Michel de Montaigne (1872). All the Essays of Michael Seigneur de Montaigne, p.678
Greatness of soul consists not so much in soaring high and in pressing forward, as in knowing how to adapt and limit oneself.
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