“He who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears.”
Michel De Montaigne (1533–1592) (1533-1592) French-Occitan author, humanistic philosopher, statesman
Book III, Ch. 13
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“He who suffers conquers.”
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VI, line 292.
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Variant: He who knows how to suffer everything can dare everything.
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Solomon on the Vanity of the World, book iii, line 240; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).