"There is no passion so contagious as that…" — Michel de Montaigne

"There is no passion so contagious as that of fear."

— Michel de Montaigne

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649 Quotes by Michel de Montaigne

Michel de Montaigne has 649 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

My home...It is my retreat and resting place from wars, I try to keep this corner as a haven against…
Whatever are the benefits of fortune, they yet require a palate fit to relish and taste them.
We seem ambitious God's whole work to undo. ...With new diseases on ourselves we war, And with new physic, a…
Tis so much to be a king, that he only is so by being so.
Meditation is a rich and powerful method of study for anyone who knows how to examine his mind.
There never were, in the world, two opinions alike, no more than two hairs, or two grains; the most universal…
Since I would rather make of him an able man than a learned man, I would also urge that care…
In the education of children there is nothing like alluring the interest and affection; otherwise you only make so many…
It is the part of cowardliness, and not of virtue, to seek to squat itself in some hollow lurking hole,…
He who fears he will suffer, already suffers from his fear.
Who feareth to suffer suffereth already, because he feareth.
Repentance is but a denying of our will, and an opposition of our fantasies.

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The health of the people is of supreme importance. All measures looking to their protection against the spread of contagious… — Chester A. Arthur
Aggression unopposed becomes a contagious disease. — Jimmy Carter
As war and government prove, insanity is the most contagious of diseases. — Edward Abbey
Insomnia: A contagious disease often transmitted from babies to parents. — Shannon Fife
Even if you're unhappy, just pretend that you're happy. Eventually, your smile will be contagious to yourself. I had to… — Evangeline Lilly
Freedom is the most contagious virus known to man. — Hubert H. Humphrey
Fear is contagious. You can catch it. — Neil Gaiman
Like timidity, bravery is also contagious. — Munshi Premchand
Vigor is contagious, and whatever makes us either think or feel strongly adds to our power and enlarges our field… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Remember that happiness is as contagious as gloom. It should be the first duty of those who are happy to… — Maurice Maeterlinck
In any family, measles are less contagious than bad habits. — Mignon McLaughlin
Energy is contagious: either you affect people or you infect people. — T. Harv Eker

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