He who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEThe thing I fear most is fear.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.
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It is the mind that maketh good or ill, That maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor.
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The confidence in another man’s virtue is no light evidence of a man’s own, and God willingly favors such a confidence.
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One may be humble out of pride.
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The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.
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Let us not be ashamed to speak what we shame not to think.
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Confidence in others’ honesty is no light testimony of one’s own integrity.
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If a man should importune me to give a reason why I loved him, I find it could no otherwise be expressed, than by making answer: because it was he, because it was I.
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An untempted woman cannot boast of her chastity.
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We only labor to stuff the memory, and leave the conscience and the understanding unfurnished and void.
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It is a monstrous thing that I will say, but I will say it all the same: I find in many things more restraint and order in my morals than in my opinions, and my lust less depraved than my reason.
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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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Even from their infancy we frame them to the sports of love: their instruction, behavior, attire, grace, learning and all their words azimuth only at love, respects only affection. Their nurses and their keepers imprint no other thing in them.
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Virtue rejects facility to be her companion. She requires a craggy, rough and thorny way.
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He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.
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