Michel de Montaigne Quotes about Age

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Take care that old age does not wrinkle your spirit even more than your face.

Take care that old age does not wrinkle your spirit even more than your face.

Michel de Montaigne

Wrinkles, Age, Doe

I would rather be old for a shorter time than be old before my time.

Michel de Montaigne

Self, Age, Lifetime

Nature should have been pleased to have made this age miserable, without making it also ridiculous.

Michel de Montaigne

Time, Should Have, Age

Michel de Montaigne (1603). “Essayes”, p.246

And as hearbes and trees are bettered and fortified by being transplanted, so formes of speach are embellished and graced by variation.... As in our ordinary language, we shall sometimes meete with excellent phrases, and quaint metaphors, whose blithnesse fadeth through age, and colour is tarnish by to common using them.

Michel de Montaigne

Tree, Age, Ordinary

Every period of life has its peculiar prejudices; whoever saw old age, that did not applaud the past, and condemn the present times?

Michel de Montaigne

Past, Age, Prejudice

Tis well for old age that it is always accompanied with want of perception, ignorance, and a facility of being deceived. For should we see how we are used and would not acquiesce, what would become of us?

Michel de Montaigne

Ignorance, Perception, Age

Michel de Montaigne, William Hazlitt (1860). “The Works of Michael de Montaigne: Comprising His Essays, Letters, and Journey Through Germany and Italy”, p.206

God is favorable to those whom he makes to die by degrees; 'tis the only benefit of old age. The last death will be so much the less painful: it will kill but a quarter of a man or but half a one at most.

Michel de Montaigne

Death, Men, Age

Michel de Montaigne (1872). “All the Essays of Michael Seigneur de Montaigne”, p.880

Is it not a noble farce, wherein kings, republics, and emperors have for so many ages played their parts, and to which the whole vast universe serves for a theatre?

Michel de Montaigne

Kings, Age, Theatre

"Bartlett's Familiar Quotations" by John Bartlett, 10th ed., 1919.

It is indeed the boundary of life, beyond which we are not to pass; which the law of nature has pitched for a limit not to be exceeded.

Michel de Montaigne

Law, Age, Limits

Michel de Montaigne (1853). “The Works of Michael de Montaigne: Comprising His Essays, Letters, and Journey Through Germany and Italy. With Notes from All the Commentators, Biographical and Bibliographical Notices &c., &c”, p.151

I do not portray the thing in itself. I portray the passage; not a passing from one age to another, or, as the people put it, from seven years to seven years, but from day to day, from minute to minute.

Michel de Montaigne

Years, People, Age

Michel de Montaigne Quotes about Age

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