He who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNENothing is so firmly believed as what we least know.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul.
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A wise man sees as much as he ought, not as much as he can.
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A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
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If ordinary people complain that I speak too much of myself, I complain that they do not even think of themselves.
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It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others.
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The public weal requires that men should betray, and lie, and massacre.
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It is not death, it is dying that alarms me.
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I have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than myself.
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For truly it is to be noted, that children’s plays are not sports, and should be deemed as their most serious actions.
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Ignorance is the softest pillow on which a man can rest his head.
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The ceaseless labour of your life is to build the house of death.
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Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face.
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Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.
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I write to keep from going mad from the contradictions I find among mankind – and to work some of those contradictions out for myself.
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An untempted woman cannot boast of her chastity.
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