A man should ever, as much as in him lieth, be ready booted to take hi…

Michel de Montaigne
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A man should ever, as much as in him lieth, be ready booted to take his journey, and above all things look he have then nothing to do but with himself. ✨ Shakespeare's Montaigne: The Florio Translation of the Essays, A Selection.
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A wise man loses nothing, if he but save himself. ✨ Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 462-63, Essays, Of Solitude, 1922.
I write to keep from going mad from the contradictions I find among mankind - and to work some of those contradictions out for myself.
Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky. ✨ Attributed to Essais by Michel de Montaigne, Book III, Ch. 8, 1595.
There is no knowledge so hard to acquire as the knowledge of how to live this life well and naturally. ✨ Michel de Montaigne (1958). Complete Essays, p.852, Stanford University Press
We have power over nothing except our will. ✨ Michel de Montaigne (1958). Essays

A man should ever, as much as in him lieth, be ready booted to take his journey, and above all things look he have then nothing to do but with himself. ✨ Shakespeare's Montaigne: The Florio Translation of the Essays, A Selection.

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