Michel de Montaigne Quotes About Suffering
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A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears.
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We must learn to suffer what we cannot evade; our life, like the harmony of the world, is composed of contrary things, and one part is no less necessary than the other.
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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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There is no passion that so much transports men from their right judgments as anger. No one would demur upon punishing a judge with death who should condemn a criminal upon the account of his own choler; why then should fathers and pedants be any more allowed to whip and chastise children in their anger? It is then no longer correction bat revenge. Chastisement is instead of physic to children; and should we suffer a physician who should be animated against and enraged at his patient?
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We must learn to suffer what we cannot evade.
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He who fears he will suffer, already suffers from his fear.
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Who feareth to suffer suffereth already, because he feareth.
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Stupidity and wisdom meet in the same centre of sentiment and resolution, in the suffering of human accidents.
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Even in the midst of compassion we feel within I know not what tart sweet titillation of malicious pleasure in seeing others suffer; children have the same feeling.
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All passions that suffer themselves to be relished and digested are but moderate.
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There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.
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