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Michel de Montaigne1533–1592

Michel de Montaigne on life and death

He who should teach men to die would at the same time teach them to live.

Michel de Montaigne

Essais, Book I, “That to Study Philosophy is to Learn to Die” (tr. Cotton, rev. W. Hazlitt, 1842)

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