May 06, 2009 These thoughts from Montesque which I came across the other day, where he says that as soon as a man’s mind reached maturity his bodily powers begin to fail. —Delacroix, Journal. Tuesday, 9 October 1849 <- 104056743 -> …He possibly believed, with Proust, that a work in which the theory is visible is like an object which displays its price-tag.