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Death pays all debts.

Death pays all debts.

Michel de Montaigne
Death, Atheism, Pay

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.

Michel de Montaigne
Funny, Death, Jobs
Essays Bk III, Ch. 12 'Of Physiognomy'

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.

We trouble our life by thoughts about death, and our death by thoughts about life.

Michel de Montaigne
Death, Life And Death, Trouble
Michel de Montaigne, John Michael Cohen (1959). “Essays”, Penguin Classics

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 “Annotated Essays of Michel de Montaigne with English Grammar Exercises: by Michel de Montaigne (Author), Robert Powell (Editor)”, Powell Publications, LLC

I want death to find me planting my cabbages.

Michel de Montaigne
Death, Nature, Garden
Essais bk. 1, ch. 20 (1580)

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

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

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

Michel de Montaigne
Death, Oneself

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

To philosophize is to learn to die.

Michel de Montaigne
Death, Philosophical, Dies
Michel de Montaigne (1946). “The essays”

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

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.

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

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".

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
Life, Death, 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

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

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). “The essays”

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

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

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

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