Michel de Montaigne Quotes About Fear
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My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened.
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A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears.
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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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Who feareth to suffer suffereth already, because he feareth.
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What fear has once made me will, I am bound still to will when without fear.
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The thing in the world I am most afraid of is fear, and with good reason; that passion alone, in the trouble of it, exceeding all other accidents
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The thing I fear most is fear.
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The thing in the world I am most afraid of is fear.
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Fear sometimes adds wings to the heels, and sometimes nails them to the ground, and fetters them from moving.
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Water, earth, air, fire, and the other parts of this structure of mine are no more instruments of your life than instruments of your death. Why do you fear your last day? It contributes no more to your death than each of the others. The last step does not cause the fatigue, but reveals it. All days travel toward death, the last one reaches it.
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There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.
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