Live as long as you please, you will strike nothing off the time you w…

Michel de Montaigne
452 citations
Live as long as you please, you will strike nothing off the time you will have to spend dead. ✨ Michel de Montaigne (1958). Complete Essays, p.66, Stanford University Press
Death Time
8

More Author Quotes

For truth itself does not have the privilege to be employed at any time and in every way; its use, noble as it is, has its circumscriptions and limits. ✨ Michel de Montaigne (1976). The Complete Essa … ▶
Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being. ✨ Attributed to Essais by Michel de Montaigne, Book III, Ch. 13, 1595.
Other people do not see you at all, but guess at you by uncertain conjectures.
Man (in good earnest) is a marvellous vain, fickle, and unstable subject, and on whom it is very hard to form any certain and uniform judgment. ✨ Michel de Montaigne (2013). Michel de Montaigne: Sele … ▶
Friendship is the highest degree of perfection in society.

Live as long as you please, you will strike nothing off the time you will have to spend dead. ✨ Michel de Montaigne (1958). Complete Essays, p.66, Stanford University Press

More Author Quotes

Most Cited Authors

The Best Quotes

Most Liked Authors

Curated Author Quotes