“ Time by degrees breaks our strength and makes us grow feeble. ”
Michel de Montaigne, The Essays of Michel de Montaigne (1580). copy citation
| Author | Michel de Montaigne |
|---|---|
| Source | The Essays of Michel de Montaigne |
| Topic | strength time |
| Date | 1580 |
| Language | English |
| Reference | |
| Note | Translated by Charles Cotton |
| Weblink | http://www.gutenberg.org/files/3600/3600-h/3600-h.htm |
Context
“Such I was, for I do not now make any account of myself, now that I am engaged in the avenues of old age, being already past forty:
“ Minutatim vires et robur adultum Frangit, et in partem pejorem liquitur aetas: ” Time by degrees breaks our strength and makes us grow feeble. — “ Lucretius, ii. 1131.]
what shall be from this time forward, will be but a half-being, and no more me: I every day escape and steal away from myself:
“ Singula de nobis anni praedantur euntes. ”” source
“ Minutatim vires et robur adultum Frangit, et in partem pejorem liquitur aetas: ” Time by degrees breaks our strength and makes us grow feeble. — “ Lucretius, ii. 1131.]
what shall be from this time forward, will be but a half-being, and no more me: I every day escape and steal away from myself:
“ Singula de nobis anni praedantur euntes. ”” source
