9 Michel de Montaigne Quotes on Fear

Michel de Montaigne quotes on fear

6. Things are not bad in themselves, but our cowardice makes them so.

7. C'est de quoi j'ai le plus de peur que la peur.

10. He who would teach men to die would teach them to live.

39. 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.

74. He who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears.

84. 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.

89. It is not death, it is dying that alarms me.

102. My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened.

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