The perpetual work of your life is but to lay the foundation of death. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
All of the days go toward death and the last one arrives there. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
“Anyone who teaches men how to die would teach them how to live.36” — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
“Death is not one of our social managements; it is a scene with one character.” — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
It is equally pointless to weep because we won't be alive a hundred years from now as that we were not here… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
To die is not to play a part in society; it is the act of a single person. Let us live and… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
The premeditation of death is the premeditation of liberty; he who has learnt to die has forgot to serve. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
No man dies before his hour. The time you leave behind was no more yours, than that which was before your birth,… — 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
Now, of all the benefits that virtue confers upon us, the contempt of death is one of the greatest. — 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
Long life, and short, are by death made all one; for there is no long, nor short, to things that are no… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
“It is not certain where Death awaits us, so let us await it everywhere. To think of death beforehand is to think… — 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
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
We have no participation in Being, because all human nature is ever midway between being born and dying, giving off only a… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
I agree that we should work and prolong the functions of life as far as we can, and hope that Death may… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Oh, what a valiant faculty is hope, that in a mortal subject, and in a moment, makes nothing of usurping infinity, immensity,… — 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
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
“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
“Would I fortify myself against the fear of death, it must be at the expense of Seneca: would I extract consolation for… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Water, earth, air, fire, and the other parts of this structure of mine are no more instruments of your life than instruments… — 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
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
We hold death, poverty, and grief for our principal enemies; but this death, which some repute the most dreadful of all dreadful… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
“Things external to her may have their own weight and dimension: but within inside us she gives them such measures as she… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
God might grant us riches, honours, life, and even health, to our own hurt; for every thing that is pleasing to us… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
To philosophize is nothing else than to prepare oneself for death. — 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
“The ceaseless labor of your life is to build the house of death.” — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
“All is a-swarm with commentaries: of authors there is a dearth.” — 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
