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Michel de Montaigne Quotes about Dying

Adrian, the Emperor, exclaimed incessantly, when dying, That the crowd of physicians had killed him.

Adrian, the Emperor, exclaimed incessantly, when dying, "That the crowd of physicians had killed him."

"Essays", Book II, Chapter XXXVII, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations, p. 502-04, 1922.

Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

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

It is not death, it is dying that alarms me.

Attributed to "Essais" by Michel de Montaigne, Book II, Ch. 13, 1595.