id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt 3592 Montaigne, Michel de Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Volume 12 .txt text/plain 23451 963 71 'Tis said of Alexander the Great, that being in bed, for fear having long before advertised him of the place and hour of his death, nor health, "An emperor," said he, "must die standing." A fine saying, in my The Emperor Julian said yet further, that a philosopher and a brave man 'Tis a generous desire to wish to die usefully and like a man, but the drawing about his gally to environ him, after having done great things in of making use of ill means to a good end. Marcus Antonius said, that the greatness of the people of Rome was not his goods, for having purposely cut off the thumb of his left hand, to That this man did not run to a certain death, I make no great receiver, and having caused him to be called to him; "Go," said he, "if I ./cache/3592.txt ./txt/3592.txt