A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears.
--Michel de Montaigne
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
A wise man never loses anything, if he has himself.
--Michel de Montaigne
I walk firmer and more secure up hill than down.
--Michel de Montaigne
It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others
--Michel de Montaigne
A man must learn to endure patiently that which he cannot avoid conveniently.
--Michel de Montaigne
Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.
--Michel de Montaigne
The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to ourselves.
--Michel de Montaigne
There is no passion so much transports the sincerity of judgment as doth anger
--Michel de Montaigne
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