black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears.

Michel de Montaigne

Related Topics

Already Fear Man Suffer

Bagwalas

Popular Authors

Marilyn Monroe Paulo Coelho Abraham Lincoln C. S. Lewis Khalil Gibran Charlie Chaplin Gautama Buddha Isaac Newton

Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

Acquit All Death Obligation Say
Ignorance is the softest pillow on which a man can rest his head.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

Head Ignorance Man Pillow Rest Soften
There is no pleasure to me without communication: there is not so much as a sprightly thought comes into my mind that it does not grieve me to have produced alone, and that I have no one to tell it to.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

Alone Communication Grief Leasure Left Mind Much No One Produce Sprightly
Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

Arm Courage Leg Soul Stability Valor
Confidence in the goodness of another is good proof of one’s own goodness.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

Another Confidence God Goodness Hood Proof
The public weal requires that men should betray, and lie, and massacre.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

Betray Lie Men Muscle Public Require World
Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

Better Business Do Let Nature Permit She Understand We
The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

Certain Cheerfulness Most Sign Wisdom
I write to keep from going mad from the contradictions I find among mankind – and to work some of those contradictions out for myself.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

Contradiction Go Keep Mad Mankind Myself Some Work Write
The thing I fear most is fear.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

Fear Most Thing
The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them… Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

Day Depend Length Lie Life Make Satisfaction Them Use Value Year
How many condemnations I have witnessed more criminal than the crime!
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

Condemnation Crime Criminal More Than Witness
Covetousness is both the beginning and the end of the devil’s alphabet – the first vice in corrupt nature that moves, and the last which dies.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

Alphabet Begin Both Corrupt Covetousness Die Last Nature Vice
It should be noted that children at play are not playing about; their games should be seen as their most serious-minded activity.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

Activity Children Game Minded Most Note Play Seen Serious Should
It is the mind that maketh good or ill, That maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

Good Maketh Mind Poor Rich Wretchm Happy
A wise man sees as much as he ought, not as much as he can.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

Be Can Men Much Ought See Wise

Copyright: 2020 - 2023 | Minimalist Quotes

Warning: PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library 'imagick.so' (tried: /usr/local/lib/php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20200930/imagick.so (/usr/local/lib/php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20200930/imagick.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory), /usr/local/lib/php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20200930/imagick.so.so (/usr/local/lib/php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20200930/imagick.so.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory)) in Unknown on line 0