To compose our character is our duty, not to compose books, and to win, not battles and provinces, but order and tranquility in our conduct. Our great and glorious masterpiece is to live appropriately. All other things, ruling, hoarding, building, are only little appendages and props, at most.

Michel de Montaigne (1533 CE-1592 CE), Michel Eyquem, Seigneur de Montaigne, known as Michel de Montaigne, was one of the most significant philosophers of the French Renaissance.