The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use, we make to them; a man may live long, yet get little from life.

 The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use, we make to them; a man may live long, yet get little from life.


Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will. 


All in all, (WHAT DO I KNOW?)


At the beginning stages of his philosophical career. In late 1569, a French nobleman named Michel de Montaigne was given up dead after being flung from a galloping horse.

The fall was terrible that forced his friends to quickly rush closer and sadly carried his limp body home. 

Montaigne watched his life slipping away before his eyes. What could he do?

Is death not a brutal fate that awaits every mortal?

A few moments later, he snapped back to life. What a traumatic experience he had. 

What had he done to deserve such a sublime experience?


From that day forward, the experience gave him a wake-up call to the reality of life, and how our time is too short to waste doing meaningless stuff. It shapes his perspective on life and human nature as a whole. 

He had hobnobbed with death and how it felt like to be reborn into life. 


The experience gave him a sense of clarity about life. Within a few years, Montaigne went ahead and became one of the most famous writers in Europe. After his tragic accident, he went on to write volumes of popular essays and served two times as mayor. He traveled around the world and also served as a confidant of the king.


Time went on, he became a philosopher. At the height of his philosophizing. He wrote, “To begin depriving death of its greatest advantage over us, let us adopt a way clean contrary to that common one; let us deprive death of its strangeness, let us frequent it, let us get used to it; let us have nothing more often in mind than death… We do not know where death awaits us: so let us wait for it everywhere.” To practice death is to practice freedom. A man who has learned how to die has unlearned how to be a slave."


WHAT DO I KNOW? Later became his popular phrase. He tends to make his readers feel as if he doesn't know anything in life, meanwhile, he already knows so much. 


Michel de Montaigne, (1533-1592) was known as the Lord of Montaigne. He was one of the most significant philosophers of the French Renaissance. His work has influenced thousands of people across the globe, including the great Friedrich Nietzsche.

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