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Montaigne Death Quotes By Michel De Montaigne

Let death take me planting my cabbages, indifferent to him, and still less of my garden not being finished. (tr. Charles Cotton) — Michel De Montaigne

Montaigne Death Quotes By Michel De Montaigne

No man dies before his hour. The time you leave behind was no more yours, than that which was before your birth, and concerneth you no more. — Michel De Montaigne

Montaigne Death Quotes By Michel De Montaigne

One should be ever booted and spurred and ready to depart. — Michel De Montaigne

Montaigne Death Quotes By Michel De Montaigne

It is equally pointless to weep because we won't be alive a hundred years from now as that we were not here a hundred years ago. — Michel De Montaigne

Montaigne Death Quotes By Julian Barnes

To die from 'a draining away of one's strength caused by extreme old age' was in Montaigne's day a 'rare, singular and extraordinary death.' Nowadays we assume it as our right. — Julian Barnes

Montaigne Death Quotes By Michel De Montaigne

There is no passion that so much transports men from their right judgments as anger. No one would demur upon punishing a judge with death who should condemn a criminal upon the account of his own choler; why then should fathers and pedants be any more allowed to whip and chastise children in their anger? It is then no longer correction bat revenge. Chastisement is instead of physic to children; and should we suffer a physician who should be animated against and enraged at his patient? — Michel De Montaigne

Montaigne Death Quotes By Michel De Montaigne

Long life, and short, are by death made all one; for there is no long, nor short, to things that are no more. — Michel De Montaigne

Montaigne Death Quotes By Michel De Montaigne

If you don't know how to die, don't worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately. She will do this job perfectly for you; don't bother your head about it. — Michel De Montaigne

Montaigne Death Quotes By Michel De Montaigne

A man may by custom fortify himself against pain, shame, and suchlike accidents; but as to death, we can experience it but once, and are all apprentices when we come to it — Michel De Montaigne

Montaigne Death Quotes By Michel De Montaigne

The ceaseless labor of your life is to build the house of death. — Michel De Montaigne

Montaigne Death Quotes By Michel De Montaigne

God is favorable to those whom he makes to die by degrees; 'tis the only benefit of old age. The last death will be so much the less painful: it will kill but a quarter of a man or but half a one at most. — Michel De Montaigne

Montaigne Death Quotes By Michel De Montaigne

If you did not have death, you would curse me incessantly for depriving you of it. Realizing its advantages, I have deliberately mixed a little bitterness into it to prevent you from embracing it too greedily and imprudently. To place you in the state of moderation I ask of you, of neither running from life nor fleeing from death, I have modulated them both between sweet and bitter. — Michel De Montaigne

Montaigne Death Quotes By Michel De Montaigne

let us learn to withstand it resolutely, and to fight it. And to start to rid it of its greatest advantage over us, let us take a completely different route from the usual one. Let us rid it of its strangeness, get to know it, become accustomed to it. Let us have nothing so often in our minds as death. Let us picture it in our imagination constantly, in all its aspects. — Michel De Montaigne

Montaigne Death Quotes By Michel De Montaigne

The continuous work of our life is to build death. — Michel De Montaigne

Montaigne Death Quotes By Michel De Montaigne

To philosophise is to learn how to die. — Michel De Montaigne

Montaigne Death Quotes By Michel De Montaigne

If I can, I shall keep my death from saying anything that my life has not already said."
-from "That intention is judge of our actions — Michel De Montaigne

Montaigne Death Quotes By Michel De Montaigne

Death is not one of our social managements; it is a scene with one character. — Michel De Montaigne

Montaigne Death Quotes By Michel De Montaigne

What is it that makes all our quarrels end in death nowadays? Whereas our fathers knew degrees of vengeance we now begin at the end and straightway talk of nothing but killing. What causes that, if not cowardice? — Michel De Montaigne

Montaigne Death Quotes By Michel De Montaigne

If I can, I will prevent my death from saying anything not first said by my life. — Michel De Montaigne

Montaigne Death Quotes By Michel De Montaigne

If I were a maker of books I should compile a register, with comments, of different deaths. He who should teach people to die, would teach them to live. — Michel De Montaigne

Montaigne Death Quotes By Julian Barnes

Life versus Death becomes, as Montaigne pointed out, Old Age versus Death. — Julian Barnes

Montaigne Death Quotes By Michel De Montaigne

God might grant us riches, honours, life, and even health, to our own hurt; for every thing that is pleasing to us is not always good for us. If he sends us death, or an increase of sickness, instead of a cure, Vvrga tua et baculus, tuus ipsa me consolata sunt. "Thy rod and thy staff have comforted me," he does it by the rule of his providence, which better and more certainly discerns what is proper for us than we can do; and we ought to take it in good part, as coming from a wise and most friendly hand. — Michel De Montaigne

Montaigne Death Quotes By Stephen Greenblatt

A comparably capacious embrace of beauty and pleasure - an embrace that somehow extends to death as well as life, to dissolution as well as creation - characterizes Montaigne's restless reflections on matter in motion, Cervantes's chronicle of his mad knight, Michelangelo's depiction of flayed skin, Leonardo's sketches of whirlpools, Caravaggio's loving attention to the dirty soles of Christ's feet. — Stephen Greenblatt

Montaigne Death Quotes By Michel De Montaigne

There is nothing of evil in life for him who rightly comprehends that death is no evil; to know how to die delivers us from all subjection and constraint. — Michel De Montaigne

Montaigne Death Quotes By Michel De Montaigne

Let us never allow ourselves to be carried away so completely by pleasure that we fail to recall from time to time in how many ways our happiness is prey to death and threatened by its grip. — Michel De Montaigne

Montaigne Death Quotes By Michel De Montaigne

We trouble our life by thoughts about death, and our death by thoughts about life. — Michel De Montaigne

Montaigne Death Quotes By Michel De Montaigne

We hold death, poverty, and grief for our principal enemies; but this death, which some repute the most dreadful of all dreadful things, who does not know that others call it the only secure harbor from the storm and tempests of life, the sovereign good of nature, the sole support of liberty, and the common and sudden remedy of all evils? — Michel De Montaigne

Montaigne Death Quotes By Sogyal Rinpoche

We do not know where death awaits us: so let us wait for it everywhere. To practice death is to practice freedom. A man who has learned how to die has unlearned how to be a slave. MONTAIGNE — Sogyal Rinpoche

Montaigne Death Quotes By Michel De Montaigne

It is not death, it is dying that alarms me. — Michel De Montaigne

Montaigne Death Quotes By Michel De Montaigne

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

Montaigne Death Quotes By Michel De Montaigne

Our thoughts are always elsewhere; we are stayed and supported by the hope for a better life, or by the hope that our children will turn out well, or that our name will be famous in the future, or that we shall escape the evils of this life, or that vengeance threatens those who are the cause of our death. — Michel De Montaigne

Montaigne Death Quotes By Michel De Montaigne

To philosophize is nothing else than to prepare oneself for death. — Michel De Montaigne

Montaigne Death Quotes By Michel De Montaigne

Happy are they who can please and delight their senses with things insensate - and who can live off their death. — Michel De Montaigne

Montaigne Death Quotes By Michel De Montaigne

I agree that we should work and prolong the functions of life as far as we can, and hope that Death may find me planting my cabbages, but indifferent to him and still more to the unfinished state of my garden. — Michel De Montaigne

Montaigne Death Quotes By Michel De Montaigne

To begin depriving death of its greatest advantage over us, let us adopt a way clean contrary to that common one; let us deprive death of its strangeness, let us frequent it, let us get used to it; let us have nothing more often in mind than death ... We do not know where death awaits us: so let us wait for it everywhere."
"To practice death is to practice freedom. A man who has learned how to die has unlearned how to be a slave. — Michel De Montaigne

Montaigne Death Quotes By Julian Barnes

For Montaigne, the death of youth, which so often takes place unnoticed is the harder death; what we habitually refer to as 'death' is no more than the death of old age ... The leap from the attenuated survival of senescence into nonexistence is much easier than the sly transition from heedless youth crabbed and regretful age. — Julian Barnes

Montaigne Death Quotes By Michel De Montaigne

One should always have one's boots on and be ready to leave. — Michel De Montaigne

Montaigne Death Quotes By Michel De Montaigne

It is not certain where Death awaits us, so let us await it everywhere. To think of death beforehand is to think of our liberty. Whoever learns how to die has learned how not to be a slave. Knowing how to die frees us from all subjection and constraint.xi — Michel De Montaigne

Montaigne Death Quotes By Michel De Montaigne

As for dying we can only assay that once; we are all apprentices when it comes to that — Michel De Montaigne

Montaigne Death Quotes By Michel De Montaigne

Things external to her may have their own weight and dimension: but within inside us she gives them such measures as she wills: death is terrifying to Cicero, desirable to Cato, indifferent to Socrates. Health, consciousness, authority, knowledge, beauty and their opposites doff their garments as they enter the soul and receive new vestments, coloured with qualities of her own choosing: brown or green; light or dark; bitter or sweet, deep or shallow, as it pleases each of the individual souls, who have not agreed together on the truth of their practices, rules or ideas. Each soul is Queen in her own state. So let us no longer seek excuses from the external qualities of anything, the responsibility lies within ourselves. Our good or our bad depends on us alone. So let us make our offertories and our vows to ourselves not to Fortune: she has no power over our behaviour, on the contrary our souls drag Fortune in their train and mould her to their own idea. — Michel De Montaigne

Montaigne Death Quotes By Michel De Montaigne

To die of age is a rare, singular, and extraordinary death, — Michel De Montaigne

Montaigne Death Quotes By Michel De Montaigne

To philosophize is to learn to die. — Michel De Montaigne

Montaigne Death Quotes By Michel De Montaigne

I want death to find me planting my cabbages. — Michel De Montaigne

Montaigne Death Quotes By Michel De Montaigne

The perpetual work of your life is but to lay the foundation of death. — Michel De Montaigne

Montaigne Death Quotes By Michel De Montaigne

Like a full-fed guest, depart to rest ... — Michel De Montaigne

Montaigne Death Quotes By Michel De Montaigne

Water, earth, air, fire, and the other parts of this structure of mine are no more instruments of your life than instruments of your death. Why do you fear your last day? It contributes no more to your death than each of the others. The last step does not cause the fatigue, but reveals it. All days travel toward death, the last one reaches it. — Michel De Montaigne

Montaigne Death Quotes By Cyril Connolly

If Montaigne is a man in the prime of life sitting in his study on a warm morning and putting down the sum of his experience in his rich, sinewy prose, then Pascal is that same man lying awake in the small hours of the night when death seems very close and every thought is heightened by the apprehension that it may be his last. — Cyril Connolly

Montaigne Death Quotes By Michel De Montaigne

Of all the benefits which virtue confers on us, the contempt of death is one of the greatest. — Michel De Montaigne

Montaigne Death Quotes By Michel De Montaigne

The day of your birth leads you to death as well as to life . — Michel De Montaigne

Montaigne Death Quotes By Michel De Montaigne

All of the days go toward death and the last one arrives there. — Michel De Montaigne

Montaigne Death Quotes By Michel De Montaigne

Would I fortify myself against the fear of death, it must be at the expense of Seneca: would I extract consolation for myself or my friend, I must borrow it from Cicero. I might have found it in myself, had I been trained to make use of my own reason. I do not like this relative and mendicant understanding; for though we could become learned by other men's learning, a man can never be wise but by his own wisdom. — Michel De Montaigne

Montaigne Death Quotes By Michel De Montaigne

Death pays all debts. — Michel De Montaigne

Montaigne Death Quotes By Atul Gawande

As Montaigne wrote, observing late-sixteenth-century life, To die of age is a rare, singular, and extraordinary death, and so much less natural than others: it is the last and extremest kind of dying. — Atul Gawande

Montaigne Death Quotes By Michel De Montaigne

I want us to be doing things, prolonging life's duties as much as we can. I want death to find me planting my cabbages, neither worrying about it nor the unfinished gardening. — Michel De Montaigne