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John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.

9271 Mihel Eyquem

 
NUMBER:9271
AUTHOR:Michel Eyquem, seigneur de Montaigne (1533–1592)
QUOTATION:All passions that suffer themselves to be relished and digested are but moderate. 1
ATTRIBUTION:Book i. Chap. ii. Of Sorrow.
 
Note 1.
See Raleigh, Quotation 3.

Curae leves loquuntur ingentes stupent (Light griefs are loquacious, but the great are dumb).—Seneca: Hippolytus, ii. 3, 607. [back]