“Valor is strength, not of legs and arms, but of heart and soul; it consists not in the worth of our horse or our weapons, but in our own.”
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.”
“He who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears.”
“I do not care so much what I am to others as I care what I am to myself.”