Essays — Michel de Montaigne

Essays

Michel de Montaigne · רישיון: Public domain · מקור

• "Estne novis nuptis odio Venus? anne parentum Frustrantur falsis gaudia lachrymulis, Ubertim thalami quasi intra limina fundunt? Non, ita me divi, vera gemunt, juverint." CHAPTER XXXVII · ¶1180
• "Largus enim liquidi fons luminis, aetherius sol, Irrigat assidue coelum candore recenti, Suppeditatque novo confestim lumine lumen." CHAPTER XXXVII · ¶1184
• Just so the soul variously and imperceptibly darts out her passions. CHAPTER XXXVII · ¶1186
• Relations, old acquaintances, and friendships, possess our imaginations and make them tender for the time, according to their condition; but the turn is so quick, that 'tis gone in a moment: CHAPTER XXXVII · ¶1189
• "Nil adeo fieri celeri ratione videtur, Quam si mens fieri proponit, et inchoat ipsa, Ocius ergo animus, quam res se perciet ulla, Ante oculos quorum in promptu natura videtur;" CHAPTER XXXVII · ¶1190
• "Rari quippe boni: numero vix sunt totidem quot Thebarum portae, vel divitis ostia Nili," CHAPTER XXXVIII · ¶1195
• "Ratio et prudentia curas, Non locus effusi late maris arbiter, aufert;" CHAPTER XXXVIII · ¶1199
• ambition, avarice, irresolution, fear, and inordinate desires, do not leave us because we forsake our native country: CHAPTER XXXVIII · ¶1201
• "Et Post equitem sedet atra cura;" CHAPTER XXXVIII · ¶1202
• they often follow us even to cloisters and philosophical schools; nor deserts, nor caves, hair-shirts, nor fasts, can disengage us from them: CHAPTER XXXVIII · ¶1204
• "Haeret lateri lethalis arundo." CHAPTER XXXVIII · ¶1205
• One telling Socrates that such a one was nothing improved by his travels: "I very well believe it," said he, "for he took himself along with him" CHAPTER XXXVIII · ¶1207
• "Quid terras alio calentes Sole mutamus? patriae quis exsul Se quoque fugit?" CHAPTER XXXVIII · ¶1208
• "Rupi jam vincula, dicas Nam luctata canis nodum arripit; attamen illi, Quum fugit, a collo trahitur pars longa catenae." CHAPTER XXXVIII · ¶1211
• We still carry our fetters along with us. 'Tis not an absolute liberty; we yet cast back a look upon what we have left behind us; the fancy is still full of it: CHAPTER XXXVIII · ¶1213
• "Nisi purgatum est pectus, quae praelia nobis Atque pericula tunc ingratis insinuandum? Quantae connscindunt hominem cupedinis acres Sollicitum curae? quantique perinde timores? Quidve superbia, spurcitia, ac petulantia, quantas Efficiunt clades? quid luxus desidiesque?" CHAPTER XXXVIII · ¶1214
• Our disease lies in the mind, which cannot escape from itself; CHAPTER XXXVIII · ¶1216
• "In culpa est animus, qui se non effugit unquam," --Horace, Ep., i. 14, 13. CHAPTER XXXVIII · ¶1217
• and therefore is to be called home and confined within itself: that is the true solitude, and that may be enjoyed even in populous cities and the courts of kings, though more commodiously apart. CHAPTER XXXVIII · ¶1218
• "In solis sis tibi turba locis." CHAPTER XXXVIII · ¶1221
• "Vah! quemquamne hominem in animum instituere, aut Parare, quod sit carius, quam ipse est sibi?" CHAPTER XXXVIII · ¶1224
• "Rarum est enim, ut satis se quisque vereatur." CHAPTER XXXVIII · ¶1228
• "Tuta et parvula laudo, Quum res deficiunt, satis inter vilia fortis Verum, ubi quid melius contingit et unctius, idem Hos sapere et solos aio bene vivere, quorum Conspicitur nitidis fundata pecunia villis." CHAPTER XXXVIII · ¶1231
• "Democriti pecus edit agellos Cultaque, dum peregre est animus sine corpore velox." CHAPTER XXXVIII · ¶1237
• "Usque adeone Scire tuum, nihil est, nisi to scire hoc, sciat alter?" CHAPTER XXXVIII · ¶1240
• "Unusquisque sua noverit ire via." CHAPTER XXXVIII · ¶1247
• "Tacitum sylvas inter reptare salubres, Curantem, quidquid dignum sapienti bonoque est." CHAPTER XXXVIII · ¶1249
• "Carpamus dulcia; nostrum est, Quod vivis; cinis, et manes, et fabula fies." CHAPTER XXXVIII · ¶1252
• "Tun', vetule, auriculis alienis colligis escas?" CHAPTER XXXVIII · ¶1255
• "Obversentur species honestae animo;" CHAPTER XXXVIII · ¶1258
• Edited by William Carew Hazlitt CHAPTER XXXVIII · ¶1265
• XXXIX. A consideration upon Cicero. XL. That the relish of good and evil depends in a great measure upon opinion. XLI. Not to communicate a man's honour. XLII. Of the inequality amongst us. XLIII. Of sumptuary laws. XLIV. Of sleep. XLV. Of the battle of Dreux. XLVI. Of names. XLVII. Of the uncertainty of our judgment. CHAPTER XXXVIII · ¶1268
• "Imperet bellante prior, jacentem Lenis in hostem." CHAPTER XXXIX · ¶1272
• 'Tis not his profession to know either how to hunt or to dance well; CHAPTER XXXIX · ¶1274
• "Orabunt causas alii, coelique meatus Describent radio, et fulgentia sidera dicent; Hic regere imperio populos sciat." CHAPTER XXXIX · ¶1275
• But returning to the speaking virtue: I find no great choice betwixt not knowing to speak anything but ill, and not knowing to speak anything but well. CHAPTER XXXIX · ¶1279
• "Non est ornamentum virile concimitas." CHAPTER XXXIX · ¶1280
• The sages tell us that, as to what concerns knowledge, 'tis nothing but philosophy; and as to what concerns effects, nothing but virtue, which is generally proper to all degrees and to all orders. CHAPTER XXXIX · ¶1282
• THAT THE RELISH FOR GOOD AND EVIL DEPENDS IN GREAT MEASURE UPON THE OPINION WE HAVE OF THEM CHAPTER XL · ¶1286
• "Mors! utinam pavidos vitae subducere nolles. Sed virtus to sola daret!" CHAPTER XL · ¶1289

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