'tis no wonder if he be often trapped in the pitfall. They affright pe… — Essays

Essays — Michel de Montaigne

'tis no wonder if he be often trapped in the pitfall. They affright people with the very mention of death, and many cross themselves, as it were the name of the devil. And because the making a man's will is in reference to dying, not a man will be persuaded to take a pen in hand to that purpose, till the physician has passed sentence upon and totally given him over, and then betwixt and terror, God knows in how fit a condition of understanding he is to do it.

Lugar: CHAPTER XIX · ¶481
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