 Not being able to rule events, I rule myself, and adapt myself to them if they do not adapt themselves to me. I have hardly the skill to dodge Fortune and escape her or force her, and to direct and lead things foresightedly to serve my purpose. I have...  The Essays of Montaigne - Strona 53autor: Michel de Montaigne - 1925Pełny widok - Informacje o książce
 | Michel de Montaigne - 1965 - Liczba stron: 914
...matters that I escape. Even if I should fall, what would it matter? Not being able to rule events, I rule myself, and adapt myself to them if they do not adapt themselves to me. I have hardly the skill to dodge Fortune and escape her or force her, and to direct and lead things foresightedly... | |
 | Leslie A. Fiedler - 1958 - Liczba stron: 668
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 | Charles O. Frake - 1980 - Liczba stron: 1158
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 | Hugo Friedrich - 1991 - Liczba stron: 476
...how I shall escape, as how little it matters that I escape . .. Not being able to rule events, 1 rule myself, and adapt myself to them if they do not adapt themselves to me" (II, 17, 488 B). This type of attitude goes all the way to the complacency of letting everything proceed... | |
 | H. L. Hix - 1995 - Liczba stron: 234
...their heat but by our own" (46). Thus he adopted this precept: "Not being able to rule events, I rule myself, and adapt myself to them if they do not adapt themselves to me" (488). Integrity is spatial because, like singularity and duty, it uses an inside/outside framework,... | |
 | Onno van der Hart, Ellert R Nijenhuis, K Steele - 2006 - Liczba stron: 452
...situations by making adaptive internal changes: "Not being able to control events, I control myself; and I adapt myself to them, if they do not adapt themselves to me" (De Montaigne, 1993, p. 981). In this third phase of treatment some patients begin to realize that... | |
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