A quotation from Montaigne

The honor we receive from those who fear us is not honor.
 
[L’honneur que nous recevons de ceux qui nous craignent, ce n’est pas honneur.]

Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592) French essayist
Essays, Book 1, ch. 42 (1.42), “Of the Inequality among Us [De l’inequalité qui est entre nous]” (1572) [tr. Frame (1943)]

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