A man may by custom fortify himself against pain, shame, and suchlike accidents; but as to death, we can experience it but once, and are all apprentices when we come to it


Selected Essays of Michel de Montaigne (ed. 1903)


A man may by custom fortify himself against pain, shame, and suchlike accidents; but as to death, we can experience it but once, and are all...

A man may by custom fortify himself against pain, shame, and suchlike accidents; but as to death, we can experience it but once, and are all...

A man may by custom fortify himself against pain, shame, and suchlike accidents; but as to death, we can experience it but once, and are all...

A man may by custom fortify himself against pain, shame, and suchlike accidents; but as to death, we can experience it but once, and are all...