Citations de Michel de Montaigne

Michel Eyquem, Seigneur de Montaigne, 1533-1592

Quotations from Montaigne's Essays
selected and translated by Anthony Weir
with glosses and comments.

Michel de Montaigne

Michel de Montaigne
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6.1.11

...il n'est passion contagieuse comme celle de la peur...

No passion is more infectious than fear...

1 comment:

  1. Wofl6 January 2011 at 02:26

    and see
    http://dsdnt.blogspot.com/2011/01/orgasm-of-war.html

    Fear and hate are the two great gods, the gods of war.
    Montaigne lived through the horrible war of religion in France, a civil war like that in Bosnia, but which lasted 100 years.

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