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Quotation from Essays by Michel de Montaigne
“The premeditation of death is the premeditation of liberty; he who has learned to die has unlearned to serve”
Essays, Book I, Ch. XIX (Cotton numbering), 'That to study philosophy is to learn to die', trans. Charles Cotton (1685-1686)
The early, Senecan Montaigne argues that habitual thought of death frees a person from fear and from every other subjection.
Citation: "The premeditation of death is the premeditation of liberty; he who has learned to die has unlearned to serve" — Michel de Montaigne, Essays, Book I, Ch. XIX (Cotton numbering), 'That to study philosophy is to learn to die', trans. Charles Cotton (1685-1686). (id essays-montaigne-q2)
Portrait: Portrait of Michel de Montaigne by unknown painter in the Musée Condé, anonymous, Public domain.
