1,152 Quotes by Michel de Montaigne

...he who should teach men to die would at the same time teach them to live.

Mon métier et mon art c’est vivre. [My craft and my skill is living.]

(...) que a morte me encontre plantando minhas couves, mas despreocupado com ela e ainda mais com minha horta inacabada.

Meditar previamente sobre a morte é meditar previamente sobre a liberdade.Quem aprendeu a morrer desaprendeu a se subjugar. Não há nenhum mal na vida para aquele que bem compreendeu que a privação da vida não é um mal. Saber morrer liberta-nos de toda sujeição e imposição.

For I never see the whole of anything; nor do those who promise to show it to us.

To compose our character is our duty, not to compose books, and to win, not battles and provinces, but order and tranquility in our conduct. Our great and glorious masterpiece is to live appropriately. All other things, ruling, hoarding, building, are only little appendages and props, at most.

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

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.

There is hardly less torment in running a family than in running a country.