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The Essays of Michel de Montaigne Online
The Essays of Michel de Montaigne Online
Lycurgus
In the Essays of Michel de Montaigne
There is 1 tagged instance of Lycurgus in 1 chapter.
Distribution of tagged instances of Lycurgus per chapter.
- Book 1 · Chapter 19 · ¶ 42
To Philosophize Is to Learn to Die In fact, we have dug our cemeteries next to churches, and in the busiest places in town, so that common folks, women, and children learn not to be frightened by the sight of a dead body, according to Lycurgus, and so that the never-ending show of bones, tombs, and corteges reminds us of our condition.