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Quotation from Essays by Michel de Montaigne
“the very sight of another’s pain materially pains me, and I often usurp the sensations of another person”
Essays, Book I, Ch. XX, 'Of the Force of Imagination', trans. Charles Cotton (1685-1686)
Montaigne opens his catalogue of suggestion and sympathetic illness by confessing his own susceptibility to others' symptoms.
Citation: "the very sight of another’s pain materially pains me, and I often usurp the sensations of another person" — Michel de Montaigne, Essays, Book I, Ch. XX, 'Of the Force of Imagination', trans. Charles Cotton (1685-1686). (id essays-montaigne-q3)
Portrait: Portrait of Michel de Montaigne by unknown painter in the Musée Condé, anonymous, Public domain.
