Not being able to control events, I control myself, and adapt myself to them if they do not adapt themselves to me.
[Ne pouvant regler les evenemens, je me regle moy-mesme: & m’applique à eux, s’ils ne s’appliquent à moy.]
Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592) French essayist
Essays, Book 2, ch. 17 (2.17), “Of Presumption [De la Presomption]” (1578) [tr. Cohen (1958)]
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