Man comes to each age of his life as a novice.
[L’homme arrive novice à chaque âge de la vie.]
Nicolas Chamfort (1741-1794) French writer, epigrammist (b. Nicolas-Sébastien Roch)
Products of Perfected Civilization [Produits de la Civilisation Perfectionnée], Part 2 “Characters and Anecdotes [Caractères et Anecdotes],” ch. 12 (1795) [tr. Merwin (1969)]
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(Source (French)). Alternate translations:
Man arrives a novice at every age of life.
[ed. Mathews (1878)]
Man reaches each stage in his life as a novice.
[tr. Hutchinson (1902), "The Cynic's Breviary"]
A man begins every stage of his life as a novice.
[tr. Parmée (2003), ¶ 422]
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