Quotes from Michael de Montaigne

The least strained and most natural ways of the soul are the most beautiful; the best occupations are the least forced.

How many we know who have fled the sweetness of a tranquil life in their homes, among the friends, to seek the horror of uninhabitable deserts; who have flung themselves into humiliation, degradation, and the contempt of the world, and have enjoyed these and even sought them out.

The great and glorious masterpiece of man is to live to the point.

To philosophise is to learn how to die.

He who fears he shall suffer already suffers what he fears.

If you know not how to die, never trouble yourself; Nature will in a moment fully and sufficiently instruct you; she will exactly do that business for you; take you no care for it.