“The ceaseless labor of your life is to build the house of death.” — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
“As for dying we can only assay that once; we are all apprentices when it comes to that” — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
After they had accustomed themselves at Rome to the spectacles of the slaughter of animals, they proceeded to those of the slaughter… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
“All is a-swarm with commentaries: of authors there is a dearth.” — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
There is no passion that so much transports men from their right judgments as anger. No one would demur upon punishing a… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Men come and they go and they trot and they dance, and never a word about death. All well and good. Yet… — Michel De Montaigne Copy Share Image
The perpetual work of your life is but to lay the foundation of death. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
“I want us to be doing things, prolonging life's duties as much as we can. I want death to find me planting… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
To philosophize is nothing else than to prepare oneself for death. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
As great enmities spring from great friendships, and mortal distempers from vigorous health, so do the most surprising and the wildest frenzies… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
I want death to find me planting my cabbages, but careless of death, and still more of my unfinished garden. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Of all the benefits which virtue confers on us, the contempt of death is one of the greatest. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
“Let us never allow ourselves to be carried away so completely by pleasure that we fail to recall from time to time… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
A man may by custom fortify himself against pain, shame, and suchlike accidents; but as to death, we can experience it but… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
There is nothing of evil in life for him who rightly comprehends that death is no evil; to know how to die… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
“Light griefs can speak: deep sorrows are dumb." —Seneca, Hippolytus, act ii. scene 3.] A” — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
The ceaseless labour of your life is to build the house of death. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
“What is it that makes all our quarrels end in death nowadays? Whereas our fathers knew degrees of vengeance we now begin… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
“let us learn to withstand it resolutely, and to fight it. And to start to rid it of its greatest advantage over… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
“If you did not have death, you would curse me incessantly for depriving you of it. Realizing its advantages, I have deliberately… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
To begin depriving death of its greatest advantage over us, let us adopt a way clean contrary to that common one; let… — Michel De Montaigne Copy Share Image
No man is exempt from saying silly things; the mischief is to say them deliberately. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
The laws keep up their credit, not by being just, but because they are laws; 'tis the mystic foundation of their authority; they have… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Every one rushes elsewhere and into the future, because no one wants to face one's own inner self. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Beauty is the true prerogative of women, and so peculiarly their own, that our sex, though naturally requiring another sort of feature, is never… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
The height and value of true virtue consists in the facility, utility, and pleasure of its exercise; so far from difficulty, that boys, as… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Fie on the eloquence that leaves us craving itself, not things! — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
The plainest sign of wisdom is a continual cheerfulness: her state is like that of things in the regions above the moon, always clear… — Michel De Montaigne Copy Share Image
The corruption of the age is made up by the particular contribution of every individual man; some contribute treachery, others injustice, atheism, tyranny, avarice,… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
If people must be talking about me, I would have it to be truthfully and justly. I would willingly return from the next world… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
In true friendship, in which I am expert, I give myself to my friend more than I draw him to me. I not only… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
There are as many and innumerable degrees of wit, as there are cubits between this and heaven. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
