Wherever your life ends, it is all there. The advantage of living is not measured by length, but by use; some men have lived long, and lived little; attend to it while you are in it. It lies in your will, not in the number of years, for you to have lived enough.


Book I, ch. 20 - Essais (1595)

Michel de Montaigne Quotes

Wherever your life ends, it is all there. The advantage of living is not measured by length, but by use; some men have lived long, and lived little;...

Wherever your life ends, it is all there. The advantage of living is not measured by length, but by use; some men have lived long, and lived little;...

Wherever your life ends, it is all there. The advantage of living is not measured by length, but by use; some men have lived long, and lived little;...

Wherever your life ends, it is all there. The advantage of living is not measured by length, but by use; some men have lived long, and lived little;...