The finest lives in my opinion are the common model, without miracle and without extravagance.
Michel de MontaigneIf I can, I shall keep my death from saying anything that my life has not already said.
Michel de MontaigneFortune does us neither good nor hurt; she only presents us the matter, and the seed, which our soul, more powerfully than she, turns and applies as she best pleases; being the sole cause and sovereign mistress of her own happy or unhappy condition.
Michel de Montaigne