"Not being able to govern events, I govern myself, and if they will not adapt to me, I adapt to them." - Montaigne, "Of Presumption" (1580)
Via The Practicing Stoic: A Philosophical User's Manual by Ward Farnsworth
Farnsworth notes that Montaigne is distilling and reiterating ideas he absorbed from the Stoics. I can't help but notice that this is almost exactly the same sentiment famously formulated by Victor Frankl several hundred years later.
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