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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

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

Michel de Montaigne
Fear, Passion, World
Michel de Montaigne (1853). “The Works of Michael de Montaigne: Comprising His Essays, Letters, and Journey Through Germany and Italy. With Notes from All the Commentators, Biographical and Bibliographical Notices &c., &c”, p.24

There is no passion so much transports the sincerity of judgment as doth anger

Michel de Montaigne
Anger, Passion, Management

All passions that suffer themselves to be relished and digested are but moderate.

Michel de Montaigne
Passion, Suffering, Moderates
Michel de Montaigne (1853). “The Works of Michael de Montaigne: Comprising His Essays, Letters, and Journey Through Germany and Italy. With Notes from All the Commentators, Biographical and Bibliographical Notices &c., &c”, p.4

There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.

Michel de Montaigne
Fear, Passion, Worry
Michel de Montaigne (1958). “Complete Essays”, p.208, Stanford University Press

Other passions have objects to flatter them, and seem to content and satisfy them for a while; there is power in ambition, pleasure in luxury, and pelf in covetousness; but envy can gain nothing but vexation.

Michel de Montaigne
Passion, Ambition, Luxury

I would rather produce my passions than brood over them at my expense; they grow languid when they have vent and expression. It is better that their point should operate outwardly than be turned against us.

Michel de Montaigne
Passion, Expression, Should
Michel de Montaigne (1958). “Complete Essays”, p.543, Stanford University Press

What we are told of the inhabitants of Brazil, that they never die but of old age, is attributed to the tranquility and serenity of their climate; I rather attribute it to the tranquility and serenity of their souls, which are free from all passion, thought, or any absorbing and unpleasant labors. Those people spend their lives in an admirable simplicity and ignorance, without letters, without law, without king, without any manner of religion.

Michel de Montaigne
Kings, Ignorance, Passion
Michel de Montaigne (1946). “The essays”

I see this evident, that we willingly accord to piety only the services that flatter our passions.

Michel de Montaigne
Passion, Flattery, Accord
Michel de Montaigne (1958). “Complete Essays”, p.323, Stanford University Press

While our pulse beats and we feel emotion, let us put off the business. Things will truly seem different to us when we have quieted and cooled down. It is passion that is in command at first, it is passion that speaks, it is not we ourselves.

Michel de Montaigne
Passion, Different, Firsts
Michel de Montaigne (1958). “Complete Essays”, p.540, Stanford University Press

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