Michel de Montaigne Quotes About Death
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Death pays all debts.
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I want death to find me planting my cabbages.
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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 to die, would teach them to live.
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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 delivers us from all subjection and constraint.
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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 will be so much the less painful: it will kill but a quarter of a man or but half a one at most.
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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, and concerneth you no more.
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We trouble our life by thoughts about death, and our death by thoughts about life.
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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.
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To philosophize is nothing else than to prepare oneself for death.
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Now, of all the benefits that virtue confers upon us, the contempt of death is one of the greatest.
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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.
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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?
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After they had accustomed themselves at Rome to the spectacles of the slaughter of animals, they proceeded to those of the slaughter of men, to the gladiators.
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Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.
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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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One should always have one's boots on and be ready to leave.
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To philosophize is to learn to die.
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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.
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The perpetual work of your life is but to lay the foundation of death.
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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.
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If I can, I shall keep my death from saying anything that my life has not already said.
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