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Michel de Montaigne Quotes about Birth

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

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

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

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