moriare

Updated: May 8, 2025

For the most part, the flying from other inconveniences brings us to this; nay, endeavouring to evade death, we often run into its very mouth: "Hic, rogo, non furor est, ne moriare, mori?" like those who, from fear of a precipice, throw themselves headlong into it;

Michel de Montaigne - The Essays of Montaigne — Volume 09