Essays — Michel de Montaigne
SAPIR 861
Essays
Michel de Montaigne · Licença: Public domain · Fonte
- "Et veniunt hederae sponte sua melius; Surgit et in solis formosior arbutus antris; Et volucres nulls dulcius arte canunt." CHAPTER XXX · ¶1061
- Our utmost endeavours cannot arrive at so much as to imitate the nest of the least of birds, its contexture, beauty, and convenience: not so much as the web of a poor spider. CHAPTER XXX · ¶1063
- All things, says Plato,--[Laws, 10.]--are produced either by nature, by fortune, or by art; the greatest and most beautiful by the one or the other of the former, the least and the most imperfect by the last. CHAPTER XXX · ¶1064
- --[This is the famous passage which Shakespeare, through Florio's version, 1603, or ed. 1613, p. 102, has employed in the "Tempest," ii. 1.] CHAPTER XXX · ¶1066
- How much would he find his imaginary Republic short of his perfection? CHAPTER XXX · ¶1067
- "Hos natura modos primum dedit." CHAPTER XXX · ¶1070
- "Vascones, ut fama est, alimentis talibus usi Produxere animas." CHAPTER XXX · ¶1077
- "Victoria nulla est, Quam quae confessor animo quoque subjugat hostes." CHAPTER XXX · ¶1080
- "Si succiderit, de genu pugnat" CHAPTER XXX · ¶1083
- "Stay, adder, stay, that by thy pattern my sister may draw the fashion and work of a rich ribbon, that I may present to my beloved, by which means thy beauty and the excellent order of thy scales shall for ever be preferred before all other serpents." CHAPTER XXX · ¶1089
- "Quis hominum potest scire consilium Dei? Aut quis poterit cogitare quid velit Dominus?" CHAPTER XXXI · ¶1099
- I had long ago observed most of the opinions of the ancients to concur in this, that it is high time to die when there is more ill than good in living, and that to preserve life to our own torment and inconvenience is contrary to the very rules of nature, as these old laws instruct us. CHAPTER XXXII · ¶1102
- THAT FORTUNE IS OFTENTIMES OBSERVED TO ACT BY THE RULE OF REASON CHAPTER XXXIII · ¶1106
- The inconstancy and various motions of Fortune CHAPTER XXXIII · ¶1107
- "Conjugis ante coacta novi dimittere collum, Quam veniens una atque altera rursus hyems Noctibus in longis avidum saturasset amorem," CHAPTER XXXIII · ¶1111
- --to request him of courtesy, to deliver up his prisoner to her, as he accordingly did, the gentlemen of France never denying anything to ladies. CHAPTER XXXIII · ¶1113
- "Proptereaque fere res omnes ant corio sunt, Aut seta, ant conchis, ant callo, ant cortice tectae," CHAPTER XXXV · ¶1125
- "Tum vertice nudo, Excipere insanos imbres, coelique ruinam." CHAPTER XXXV · ¶1128
- "Nudaque consistunt, formam servantia testae, Vina; nec hausta meri, sed data frusta, bibunt." CHAPTER XXXV · ¶1131
- Alexander saw a nation, where they bury their fruit-trees in winter to protect them from being destroyed by the frost, and we also may see the same. CHAPTER XXXV · ¶1135
- But, so far as clothes go, the King of Mexico changed four times a day his apparel, and never put it on again, employing that he left off in his continual liberalities and rewards; and neither pot, dish, nor other utensil of his kitchen or table was ever served twice. CHAPTER XXXV · ¶1136
- "Sunt qui nihil suadent, quam quod se imitari posse confidunt." CHAPTER XXXVI · ¶1140
- "Virtutem verba putant, ut Lucum ligna:" CHAPTER XXXVI · ¶1143
- "Quam vereri deberent, etiam si percipere non possent." CHAPTER XXXVI · ¶1145
- But our poets are beginning their career: CHAPTER XXXVI · ¶1154
- "Sit Cato, dum vivit, sane vel Caesare major," CHAPTER XXXVI · ¶1155
- "Et invictum, devicta morte, Catonem," CHAPTER XXXVI · ¶1158
- says the second. And the third, speaking of the civil wars betwixt Caesar and Pompey, CHAPTER XXXVI · ¶1160
- "Victrix causa diis placuit, set victa Catoni." CHAPTER XXXVI · ¶1161
- And the fourth, upon the praises of Caesar: CHAPTER XXXVI · ¶1163
- "Et cuncta terrarum subacta, Praeter atrocem animum Catonis." CHAPTER XXXVI · ¶1164
- And the master of the choir, after having set forth all the great names of the greatest Romans, ends thus: CHAPTER XXXVI · ¶1166
- "E cosi avven, the l'animo ciascuna Sua passion sotto 'l contrario manto, Ricopre, con la vista or'chiara, or'bruna." CHAPTER XXXVII · ¶1171
- "Tutumque putavit Jam bonus esse socer; lacrymae non sponte cadentes, Effudit, gemitusque expressit pectore laeto;" CHAPTER XXXVII · ¶1174
- for though it be true that the greatest part of our actions are no other than visor and disguise, and that it may sometimes be true that CHAPTER XXXVII · ¶1176
- "Haeredis fletus sub persona rises est," CHAPTER XXXVII · ¶1177
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