“The ceaseless labor of your life is to build the house of death.”

“We trouble our life by thoughts about death, and our death by thoughts about life.”

“We only labor to stuff the memory, and leave the conscience and the understanding unfurnished and void.”

“In general I ask for books that make use of learning, not those that build it up.”

“The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make to them; a man may live long, yet get little from life. Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will - Montaigne, Essays”

“To begin depriving death of its greatest advantage over us, let us adopt a way clean contrary to that common one; let us deprive death of its strangeness, let us frequent it, let us get used to it; let us have nothing more often in mind than death... We do not know where death awaits us: so let us wait for it everywhere." "To practice death is to practice freedom. A man who has learned how to die has unlearned how to be a slave.”

“Death is not one of our social managements; it is a scene with one character.”