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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8.12.10

Comme notre naissance nous apporta la naissance de toutes choses, aussi fera la mort de toutes choses, notre mort.

Just as everything is born when we are born, so everything dies when we do.

1 comment:

  1. Wofl8 December 2010 at 02:28

    literally:
    Just as our birth brings us the birth of things, so our death brings us the death of everything.

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