Michel Eyquem de Montaigne

1533-1592, French Essayist, Moralist

Affirmation / Approval
I care not so much what I am in the opinion of others, as what I am in my own. I would be rich of myself and not by borrowing.
Age / Ageing
The value of life does not lie in the number of years but in the use you make of them … Whether you have lived enough depends on your will, not on the number of your years.
Essais , 1580
Anger
There is no passion so much transports the sincerity of judgment as doth anger.
Autonomy / Control
The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.
Essais , 1580

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