• The wise man lives as long as he ought, not so long as he can.

    Michel de Montaigne: The wise man lives as long as he ought, not so long as he can.
    Michel de Montaigne, George Savile Marquis of Halifax (1743). “Montaigne's Essays in Three Books: With Notes and Quotations. And an Account of the Author's Life. With a Short Character of the Author and Translator”, p.22