More from Michel de Montaigne

  1. All the opinions in the world point out that pleasure is our aim.
  2. The day of your birth leads you to death as well as to life.
  3. Je veux que la mort me trouve plantant mes choux.
  4. Live as long as you please, you will strike nothing off the time you will have to spend dead.
  5. C'est de quoi j'ai le plus de peur que la peur.
  6. Wherever your life ends, it is all there. The advantage of living is not measured by length, but by use; some men have lived long, and live…
  7. Things are not bad in themselves, but our cowardice makes them so.
  8. All of the days go toward death and the last one arrives there.

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