I have gathered a posy of other men's flowers and only the thread that…

Michel de Montaigne
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I have gathered a posy of other men's flowers and only the thread that bonds them is my own.
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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
I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly. ✨ Attributed to Essais by Michel de Montaigne, 1595.
I want death to find me planting my cabbages. ✨ Essais bk. 1, ch. 20 (1580)
I have here only made a nosegay of culled flowers, and have brought nothing of my own but the thread that tied them together. ✨ Michel de Montaigne, William Hazlitt (1845). The Works of Michael de Mo … ▶
It is commonly seene by experience, that excellent memories do rather accompany weake judgements. ✨ The Essayes of Michael Lord of Montaigne.

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