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Cicero says that to philosophize is nothing else but to prepare for death.  This is because study and
contemplation draw our soul out of us to some extent and keep it busy outside the body, which is a sort of apprenticeship and semblance of death.  Or else because all the wisdom and reasoning in the world boils down finally to this point: to teach us not to be afraid to die. In truth, either reason  is a mockery, or it must aim solely at our contentment, and the sum of its labors must tend to make us live well and at our ease, as the Holy Scripture says. All the opinions in the world agree on this—that pleasure is our goal—though they choose different means to it.  Otherwise they would be thrown out right away; for who would listen to a man who would set up our pain and discomfort as his goal?

-Michel De Montaigne,  The Complete Works, Book 1, Chapter 20