Michel de Montaigne Quotes About Earth
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The world is but a perennial movement. All things in it are in constant motion-the earth, the rocks of the Caucasus, the pyramids of Egypt-both with the common motion and with their own.
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Physicians have this advantage: the sun lights their success and the earth covers their failures.
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The world is but a school of inquisition; it is not who shall enter the ring, but who shall run the best courses.
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Water, earth, air, fire, and the other parts of this structure of mine are no more instruments of your life than instruments of your death. Why do you fear your last day? It contributes no more to your death than each of the others. The last step does not cause the fatigue, but reveals it. All days travel toward death, the last one reaches it.
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