The Essays of Montaigne — Volume 11

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Title: The Essays of Montaigne, Volume 11
Author: Michel de Montaigne
Release Date: September 17, 2006 [EBook #3591]
Language: English
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ESSAYS OF MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE
Translated by Charles Cotton
Edited by William Carew Hazilitt
1877CONTENTS OF VOLUME 11.
XIII. Of judging of the death of another.
XIV. That the mind hinders itself.
XV. That our desires are augmented by difficulty.
XVI. Of glory.
XVII. Of presumption.
CHAPTER XIII
OF JUDGING OF THE DEATH OF ANOTHER
When we judge of another's assurance in death, which, without doubt, is the most remarkable action of human life, we
are to take heed of one thing, which is that men very hardly believe themselves to have arrived to that period. Few men
come to die in the opinion that it is their latest hour; and there is nothing wherein the flattery of hope more deludes us; It
never ceases to whisper in our ears, "Others have been much sicker without dying; your condition is not so desperate as
'tis thought; and, at the worst, God has done other miracles." Which happens by reason that we set ...