Michel de Montaigne Quotes About Birth

Quotes about: Birth

• The births of all things are weak and tender and therefore we should have our eyes intent on beginnings.

  Michel de Montaigne

  New Beginnings, Eye, Should Have

  Michel de Montaigne, Charles Cotton, William Carew Hazlitt (2012). “Michel de Montaigne: Selected Essays”, p.202, Courier Corporation

• I do not correct my first imaginings by my second--well, yes, perhaps a word or so, but only to vary, not to delete. I want to represent the course of my humors and I want people to see each part at its birth.

  Michel de Montaigne

  People, Want, Firsts

  Michel de Montaigne (1979). “Essays”

• No man dies before his hour. The time you leave behind was no more yours, than that which was before your birth, and concerneth you no more.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Death, Men, Birth

  Michel de Montaigne (2014). “Shakespeare's Montaigne: The Florio Translation of the Essays, A Selection”, p.31, New York Review of Books

• The day of your birth leads you to death as well as to life.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Birth, Wells

  "Essais" by Michel de Montaigne, Book I, Ch. 20, 1595.

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