Dies Quotes by Michel de Montaigne

13 Dies quotes by Michel de Montaigne

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Montaigne’s 13 musings treat death as a personal and philosophical puzzle. His conversational style and candid self‑examination make the subject feel intimate and intellectually stimulating.

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He who would teach men to die would teach them to live.

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To philosophize is to learn to die.

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The premeditation of death is the premeditation of liberty; he who has learnt to die has forgot to serve.

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Covetousness is both the beginning and the end of the devil's alphabet - the first vice in corrupt nature that moves, and…

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No man dies before his hour. The time you leave behind was no more yours, than that which was before your birth,…

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The first lessons with which we should irrigate his mind should be those which teach him to know himself, and to know…

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To die is not to play a part in society; it is the act of a single person. Let us live and…

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We do not know where death awaits us: so let us wait for it everywhere. To practice death is to practice freedom.…

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If I were a maker of books I should compile a register, with comments, of different deaths. He who should teach people…

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God is favorable to those whom he makes to die by degrees; 'tis the only benefit of old age. The last death…

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There is nothing of evil in life for him who rightly comprehends that death is no evil; to know how to die…

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What we are told of the inhabitants of Brazil, that they never die but of old age, is attributed to the tranquility…

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I seek in books only to give myself pleasure by honest amusement; or if I study, I seek only the learning that…

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Fie on the eloquence that leaves us craving itself, not things!

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The plainest sign of wisdom is a continual cheerfulness: her state is like that of things in the regions above the moon, always clear…

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The corruption of the age is made up by the particular contribution of every individual man; some contribute treachery, others injustice, atheism, tyranny, avarice,…

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