Michel de Montaigne Quotes About Death

• One should always have one's boots on and be ready to leave.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Death, Boots, Should

  'Essais' (1580) bk. 1, ch. 20.

• The premeditation of death is the premeditation of liberty; he who has learnt to die has forgot to serve.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Death, Liberty, Premeditation

  Michel de Montaigne, George Savile Marquis of Halifax (1743). “Montaigne's Essays in Three Books: With Notes and Quotations. And an Account of the Author's Life. With a Short Character of the Author and Translator”, p.82

• Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Death, Dying, Obligation

  Attributed to "Essais" by Michel de Montaigne, Book I, Ch. 7, 1595.

• Si no sabes cómo morir, no te preocupes; la Naturaleza te dirá qué hacer en el acto, completa y adecuadamente. Ella hará este trabajo perfectamente por ti; no te preocupes por ello.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Divertido, Muerte, Trabajos

  Ensayos III, Cap. 12 "De la fisiognomía

• Quiero que la muerte me encuentre plantando mis coles.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Death, Nature, Garden

  Essais bk. 1, ch. 20 (1580)

• 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

  Death, Evil, Constraints

  Michel de Montaigne "Ensayos comentados de Michel de Montaigne con ejercicios de gramática inglesa: por Michel de Montaigne (Autor), Robert Powell (Editor)", Powell Publications, LLC

• To philosophize is to learn to die.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Death, Philosophical, Dies

  Michel de Montaigne (1946). "Los ensayos"

• Arruinamos nuestra vida con pensamientos sobre la muerte, y nuestra muerte con pensamientos sobre la vida.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Muerte, Vida y Muerte, Problemas

  Michel de Montaigne, John Michael Cohen (1959). "Ensayos", Penguin Classics

• 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

  Death, Book, People

• Now, of all the benefits that virtue confers upon us, the contempt of death is one of the greatest.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Life, Death, Benefits

  "Montaigne's Essays: Top Essays".

• Death pays all debts.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Death, Atheism, Pay

• 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

  Death, Years, Alive

• 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.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Vida, muerte, animal

  Michel de Montaigne (1850). “Works, Comprising His Essays, Letters, and Journey Through Germany and Italy: With Notes from All the Commentators, Biographical and Bibliographical Notices &c., &c”, p.224

• 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

  Death, Men, Birth

  Michel de Montaigne (2014). “Shakespeare's Montaigne: The Florio Translation of the Essays, A Selection”, p.31, New York Review of Books

• The perpetual work of your life is but to lay the foundation of death.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Death, Foundation, Life Is

  Michel de Montaigne (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Michel de Montaigne (Illustrated)”, p.286, Delphi Classics

• 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

  Death, Grief, Evil

  Michel de Montaigne, Charles Cotton (1711). “Essays of Michael Seigneur de Montaigne: In Three Books with Marginal Notes and Quotations. And an Account of the Author's Life. With a Short Character of the Author and Translator,”, p.360

• To philosophize is nothing else than to prepare oneself for death.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Muerte, uno mismo

• If I can, I shall keep my death from saying anything that my life has not already said.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Life, Death, Consistency

  Michel de Montaigne (1958). “Complete Essays”, p.20, Stanford University Press

• 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

  Death, Work, Garden

  Michel de Montaigne (1946). "Los ensayos"

• 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

  Death, Men, Age

  Michel de Montaigne (1872). “All the Essays of Michael Seigneur de Montaigne”, p.880

• 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

  Death, Fear, Fire

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