Let death take me planting my cabbages, indifferent to him, and still less of my garden not being finished. (tr. Charles Cotton) - Michel de Montaigne

Mon métier et mon art, c'est vivre.

that it was an advantage to him to be interrupted in speaking, and that his adversaries were afraid to nettle him, lest his anger should redouble his eloquence.

Such as are in immediate fear of a losing their estates, of banishment, or of slavery, live in perpetual anguish, and lose all appetite and repose; whereas such as are actually poor, slaves, or exiles, ofttimes live as merrily as other folk.