Death is the condition of your creation, it is a part of you; you are fleeing from your own selves. This being of yours that you enjoy is equally divided between death and life. The first day of your birth leads toward death as toward life.
Michel de Montaigne „Essays” part “That to philosophize is to learn to die”
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(…) Nature herself lends us her hand and gives us courage. If it is a quick and violent death, we have no leisure to fear it; if it is otherwise, I notice that in proportion as I sink into sickness, I naturally enter into a certain disdain for life. I find that I have much more trouble digesting this resolution to die when I am in health than when I have a fever. Inasmuch as I no longer cling so hard to the good things of life when I begin to lose the use and pleasure of them, I come to view death with much less frightened eyes.
Michel de Montaigne „Essays” part “That to philosophize is to learn to die”
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As our birth brought us the birth of all things, so will our death bring us the death of all things. Wherefore it is foolish to lament that we shall not to be alive a hundred years from now as it is to lament that we were not alive a hundred years ago. Death is the origin of another life. Just so did we weep, just so did we struggle against entering this life, just so did we strip off our former veil when we entered it. Nothing can be grievous that happens only once. It is reasonable so long to fear a thing so short? Long life and short life are made all one by death.
Michel de Montaigne „Essays” part “That to philosophize is to learn to die”
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The length or shortness of our duration, if we compare it with eternity, or yet with the duration of mountains, rivers, stars, trees, and even of some animals, is no less ridiculous.
Michel de Montaigne „Essays” part “That to philosophize is to learn to die”
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And since we are threatened by so many kinds of death, is there not more pain in fearing them all than enduring one? What does it matter when it comes, since it is inevitable?
Michel de Montaigne „Essays” part “That to philosophize is to learn to die”
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How many ways has death to surprise us!
Michel de Montaigne „Essays” part “That to philosophize is to learn to die”
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It is uncertain where death awaits us; let us await it everywhere. Premeditation of death is premeditation of freedom. (…) Knowing how to die frees us from all subjection and constraint.
Michel de Montaigne „Essays” part “That to philosophize is to learn to die”
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