Michel de Montaigne on Time
Browse 8 quotations attributed to Michel de Montaigne, catalogued under time, with dates where available.
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Attributed to Michel de Montaigne, entry #248755: "He who should teach men to die would at the same time teach them to live."
Attributed to Michel de Montaigne, entry #58448: "Live as long as you please, you will strike nothing off the time you will have to spend dead."
8 Quotes by Michel de Montaigne on Time
"He who should teach men to die would at the same time teach them to live."
"Live as long as you please, you will strike nothing off the time you will have to spend dead."
"The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them... Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will."
"Rejoice in the things that are present; all else is beyond thee."
"'T is one and the same Nature that rolls on her course, and whoever has sufficiently considered the present state of things might certainly conclude as to both the future and the past."
"Whatever can be done another day can be done today."
"Labour not after riches first, and think thou afterwards wilt enjoy them. He who neglecteth the present moment, throweth away all that he hath. As the arrow passeth through the heart, while the warrior knew not that it was coming; so shall his life be taken away before he knoweth that he hath it."
"Wherever your life ends, it is all there. The utility of living consists not in the length of days, but in the use of time; a man may have lived long, and yet lived but a little. Make use of time while it is present with you. It depends upon your will, and not upon the number of days, to have a sufficient length of life. Is it possible you can imagine never to arrive at the place towards which you are continually going? and yet there is no journey but hath its end. And, if company will make it more pleasant or more easy to you, does not all the world go the self-same way?"