"The ceaseless labour of your life is to build the house of death."
― Michel de Montaigne
Topic(s):
Death
More From Michel de Montaigne
- "Covetousness is both the beginning and the end of the devil’s alphabet – the first vice in corrupt nature that moves, and the last which dies."
- "If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love."
- "There is little less trouble in governing a private family than a whole kingdom."
More In Death
- "Whether for life or death, do your own work well."― John Ruskin
- "We live in grief for having left the womb, for having left the teat, then school, then home. In my case, it was leaving marriages, and the death of my wife."― William Shatner
- "Life isn’t fair. It’s just fairer than death, that’s all."― William Goldman