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Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete - Montaigne, Michel de · 67 words
Philip having forcibly entered into Peloponnesus, and some one saying to Damidas that the Lacedaemonians were likely very much to suffer if they did not in time reconcile themselves to his favour. Why, you pitiful fellow, replied he, what can they suffer who do not fear to die. It being also asked of Agis, which way a man might live free. Why, said he, by despising death.
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