Citations de Michel de Montaigne

Michel Eyquem, Seigneur de Montaigne, 1533-1592

Quotations from Montaigne's Essays
selected and translated by Anthony Weir
with glosses and comments.

Michel de Montaigne

Michel de Montaigne
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7.10.10

Ce n'est pas la mort que je crains, c'est de mourir.

I'm not afear'd of death - it's dying that I dread.

1 comment:

  1. Wofl7 October 2010 at 01:51

    This is perhaps Montaigne's most famous remarks. He does not look forward to the possibly long drawn-out and exceedingly painful process of dying, at the end of which death will come as a release.

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