Quote #9
All the opinions in the world point out that pleasure is our aim.
More from Michel de Montaigne
- Je veux que la mort me trouve plantant mes choux.
- He who would teach men to die would teach them to live.
- C'est de quoi j'ai le plus de peur que la peur.
- The day of your birth leads you to death as well as to life.
- Things are not bad in themselves, but our cowardice makes them so.
- Live as long as you please, you will strike nothing off the time you will have to spend dead.
- In my opinion, every rich man is a miser.
- 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…