A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
What fear has once made me will, I am bound still to will when without fear. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Nature has, herself, I fear, imprinted in man a kind of instinct to inhumanity. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
It is fear that I stand most in fear of, in sharpness it exceeds every other feeling. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Fear sometimes adds wings to the heels, and sometimes nails them to the ground, and fetters them from moving. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
We are never present with, but always beyond ourselves; fear, desire, hope, still push us on toward the future. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
The thing in the world I am most afraid of is fear, and with good reason; that passion alone, in the trouble… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
I am afraid that our eyes are bigger than our stomachs, and that we have more curiosity than understanding. We grasp at… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Such as are in immediate fear of a losing their estates, of banishment, or of slavery, live in perpetual anguish, and lose… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Water, earth, air, fire, and the other parts of this structure of mine are no more instruments of your life than instruments… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
“Would I fortify myself against the fear of death, it must be at the expense of Seneca: would I extract consolation for… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
No man is exempt from saying silly things; the mischief is to say them deliberately. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
The laws keep up their credit, not by being just, but because they are laws; 'tis the mystic foundation of their authority; they have… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Every one rushes elsewhere and into the future, because no one wants to face one's own inner self. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Beauty is the true prerogative of women, and so peculiarly their own, that our sex, though naturally requiring another sort of feature, is never… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
The height and value of true virtue consists in the facility, utility, and pleasure of its exercise; so far from difficulty, that boys, as… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Fie on the eloquence that leaves us craving itself, not things! — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
The plainest sign of wisdom is a continual cheerfulness: her state is like that of things in the regions above the moon, always clear… — Michel De Montaigne Copy Share Image
The corruption of the age is made up by the particular contribution of every individual man; some contribute treachery, others injustice, atheism, tyranny, avarice,… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
If people must be talking about me, I would have it to be truthfully and justly. I would willingly return from the next world… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
In true friendship, in which I am expert, I give myself to my friend more than I draw him to me. I not only… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
There are as many and innumerable degrees of wit, as there are cubits between this and heaven. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
