The utility of living consists not in the length of days, but in the use of time; a man may have lived long, and yet lived but a little.
Michel de MontaigneIt is a small soul, buried beneath the weight of affairs, that does not know how to get clean away from them, that cannot put them aside and pick them up again.
Michel de MontaigneIt is the part of cowardliness, and not of virtue, to seek to squat itself in some hollow lurking hole, or to hide herself under some massive tomb, thereby to shun the strokes of fortune.
Michel de MontaigneThere are few things on which we can pass a sincere judgement, because there are few things in which we have not, in one way or another, a particular interest.
Michel de MontaigneWater, earth, air, fire, and the other parts of this structure of mine are no more instruments of your life than instruments of your death. Why do you fear your last day? It contributes no more to your death than each of the others. The last step does not cause the fatigue, but reveals it. All days travel toward death, the last one reaches it.
Michel de Montaigne