“I want death to find me planting my cabbages.”

—  Michel De Montaigne , book Essays

Je veux que la mort me trouve plantant mes choux.
Book I, Ch. 20
Essais (1595), Book I

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Je veux que la mort me trouve plantant mes choux.

Essais, Livre I

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