What did Michel de Montaigne mean by: He who would teach men to die would teach them to live. Michel de Montaigne Philosopher · France Copy
Physicians have this advantage: the sun lights their success and the earth covers their failures. Read explanation Author, January 16, 2024January 9, 2025, Michel de Montaigne, Failure, Recognition, Success, 0 Michel de Montaigne Philosopher · France
+ It is not necessity but abundance which produces greed. Read explanation Author, July 8, 2023January 2, 2025, Michel de Montaigne, Excess, Greed, Wealth, 0 Michel de Montaigne Philosopher · France
I seek in the reading of books, only to please myself, by an honest diversion. Read explanation Author, January 16, 2024January 9, 2025, Michel de Montaigne, Diversion, Pleasure, self-care, 0 Michel de Montaigne Philosopher · France
Malice sucks up the greatest part of its own venom, and poisons itself. Read explanation Author, January 16, 2024January 9, 2025, Michel de Montaigne, Malice, 0 Michel de Montaigne Philosopher · France
To philosophize is nothing else than to prepare oneself for death. Read explanation Author, January 16, 2024January 9, 2025, Michel de Montaigne, Death, Philosophy, Preparation, 0 Michel de Montaigne Philosopher · France
+ The smallest annoyances, disturb us the most. Author, July 2, 2023January 2, 2025, Michel de Montaigne, Sensitivity, 0 Michel de Montaigne Philosopher · France
+ Those things that are dearest to us have cost us the most. Author, June 14, 2023January 2, 2025, Michel de Montaigne, Importance, Sacrifice, Value, 0 Michel de Montaigne Philosopher · France
+ The world is but a perpetual see-saw. Author, October 7, 2023January 2, 2025, Michel de Montaigne, Balance, Change, Instability, 0 Michel de Montaigne Philosopher · France
I only fear the death of others. For me, true death is that of the people I love Jean Cocteau Artist · France
Here I am trying to live, or rather, I am trying to teach the death within me how to live. Jean Cocteau Artist · France
We hope to grow old and we dread old age; that is to say, we love life and we flee from death. Read explanation Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
Most men spend the best part of their lives making the remaining part wretched. Read explanation Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
