Michel de Montaigne Quotes on Fear
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Things are not bad in themselves, but our cowardice makes them so.
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C'est de quoi j'ai le plus de peur que la peur.
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He who would teach men to die would teach them to live.
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I speak the truth, not my fill of it, but as much as I dare speak; and I dare to do so a little more as I grow old.
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He who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears.
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If you don't know how to die, don't worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately. She will do this job perfectly for you; don't bother your head about it.
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It is not death, it is dying that alarms me.
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My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened.
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There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.