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I moreover affirm that our wisdom itself, and wisest consultations, for the most — Michel de Montaigne

I moreover affirm that our wisdom itself, and wisest consultations, for the most part commit themselves to the conduct of chance.

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Not being able to govern events, I govern myself. — Michel de Montaigne
Saying is one thing and doing is another. — Michel de Montaigne
He who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears. — Michel de Montaigne
Les rois et les philosophes fientent, et les dames aussi. — Michel de Montaigne
"How hast thou so profound a lore attained?" "To ask another, I was ne’er ashame — Saadi
In youth and beauty wisdom is but rare! — Homer
God turns you from one feeling to another and teaches by means of opposites, so — Rumi
Raphael paints wisdom, Handel sings it, Phidias carves it, Shakespeare writes it — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Do not try to live for ever . You will not succeed. — George Bernard Shaw
Law is mighty, mightier necessity. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
... happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination, resting on merely e — Immanuel Kant
I know faces, because I look through the fabric my own eye weaves, and behold th — Kahlil Gibran