“He who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears.”
More from Michel de Montaigne
“I quote others only to better express myself.”
“I study myself more than any other subject; it is my metaphysic, it is my physic.”
“I do not care so much what I am to others as I care what I am to myself.”
“The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.”