“The thing I fear most is fear.”
Michel De Montaigne (1533–1592) (1533-1592) French-Occitan author, humanistic philosopher, statesman
C'est de quoi j'ai le plus de peur que la peur.
Book I, ch, 18
Essais (1595), Book I
Source: The Complete Essays
“Men out of fear will cling to the thing they most fear.”
The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1883), XX Humorous Writings
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