Michel de Montaigne

“And so, live as long as you please, you will strike nothing off the time you will have to spend dead.”

“He who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears.”

“The perpetual work of your life is but to lay the foundation of death.”

“The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.”

“I want death to find me planting my cabbages, but careless of death, and still more of my unfinished garden.”