“Things aren't good or bad in and of themselves. It's what we do with them that makes them so.”
Source: A Great and Terrible Beauty
“Things are not bad in themselves, but our cowardice makes them so.”
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Michel De Montaigne
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Essays
Book I, Ch. 14
Essais (1595), Book I
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