Essays — Michel de Montaigne

Essays

Michel de Montaigne · רישיון: Public domain · מקור

• "Quoties non modo ductores nostri, sed universi etiam exercitus, ad non dubiam mortem concurrerunt?" CHAPTER XL · ¶1296
• "Qui nisi sunt veri, ratio quoque falsa sit omnis." CHAPTER XL · ¶1301
• "Aut fuit, aut veniet; nihil est praesentis in illa." CHAPTER XL · ¶1304
• "Morsque minus poenae, quam mora mortis, habet;" CHAPTER XL · ¶1306
• a thousand beasts, a thousand men, are sooner dead than threatened. That also which we principally pretend to fear in death is pain, its ordinary forerunner: yet, if we may believe a holy father: CHAPTER XL · ¶1308
• "Malam mortem non facit, nisi quod sequitur mortem." CHAPTER XL · ¶1309
• And I should yet say, more probably, that neither that which goes before nor that which follows after is at all of the appurtenances of death. CHAPTER XL · ¶1311
• "Non est enim hilaritate, nec lascivia, nec risu, aut joco comite levitatis, sed saepe etiam tristes firmitate et constantia sunt beati." CHAPTER XL · ¶1317
• And for this reason it has ever been impossible to persuade our forefathers but that the victories obtained by dint of force and the hazard of war were not more honourable than those performed in great security by stratagem or practice: CHAPTER XL · ¶1319
• "Laetius est, quoties magno sibi constat honestum." CHAPTER XL · ¶1320
• Besides, this ought to be our comfort, that naturally, if the pain be violent, 'tis but short; and if long, nothing violent: CHAPTER XL · ¶1322
• "Si gravis, brevis; Si longus, levis." CHAPTER XL · ¶1323
• Thou wilt not feel it long if thou feelest it too much; it will either put an end to itself or to thee; it comes to the same thing; if thou canst not support it, it will export thee: CHAPTER XL · ¶1324
• But let us come to examples, which are the proper game of folks of such feeble force as myself; where we shall find that it is with pain as with stones, that receive a brighter or a duller lustre according to the foil they are set in, and that it has no more room in us than we are pleased to allow it: CHAPTER XL · ¶1327
• "Tantum doluerunt, quantum doloribus se inseruerunt." CHAPTER XL · ¶1328
• "Vallere queis cura est albos a stirpe capillos, Et faciem, dempta pelle, referre novam." CHAPTER XL · ¶1335
• I have seen some of them swallow sand, ashes, and do their utmost to destroy their stomachs to get pale complexions. To make a fine Spanish body, what racks will they not endure of girding and bracing, till they have notches in their sides cut into the very quick, and sometimes to death? CHAPTER XL · ¶1337
• "Ex quo intelligitur, non in natura, sed in opinione, esse aegritudinem." CHAPTER XL · ¶1340
• "Ferox gens, nullam vitam rati sine armis esse." CHAPTER XL · ¶1343
• I know some who consentingly have acquired both profit and advancement from cuckoldom, of which the bare name only affrights so many people. CHAPTER XL · ¶1346
• "Fortuna vitrea est: turn, quum splendet, frangitur," CHAPTER XL · ¶1353
• "Faber est suae quisque fortunae" CHAPTER XL · ¶1356
• and an uneasy, necessitous, busy, rich man seems to me more miserable than he that is simply poor. CHAPTER XL · ¶1358
• "In divitiis mopes, quod genus egestatis gravissimum est." CHAPTER XL · ¶1359
• The greatest and most wealthy princes are by poverty and want driven to the most extreme necessity; for can there be any more extreme than to become tyrants and unjust usurpers of their subjects' goods and estates? CHAPTER XL · ¶1361
• "Non esse cupidum, pecunia est; non esse emacem, vertigal est." CHAPTER XL · ¶1364
• I neither am in any great apprehension of wanting, nor in desire of any more: CHAPTER XL · ¶1366
• "Divinarum fructus est in copia; copiam declarat satietas." CHAPTER XL · ¶1367
• And I am very well pleased that this reformation in me has fallen out in an age naturally inclined to avarice, and that I see myself cleared of a folly so common to old men, and the most ridiculous of all human follies. CHAPTER XL · ¶1369
• Plenty, then, and indigence depend upon the opinion every one has of them; and riches no more than glory or health have other beauty or pleasure than he lends them by whom they are possessed. CHAPTER XL · ¶1372
• La fama, ch'invaghisce a un dolce suono Gli superbi mortali, et par si bella, E un eco, un sogno, anzi d'un sogno un'ombra, Ch'ad ogni vento si dilegua a sgombra." CHAPTER XLI · ¶1379
• And of all the irrational humours of men, it should seem that the philosophers themselves are among the last and the most reluctant to disengage themselves from this: 'tis the most restive and obstinate of all: CHAPTER XLI · ¶1381
• "Quia etiam bene proficientes animos tentare non cessat." CHAPTER XLI · ¶1382
• "Semper enim quod postremum adjectum est, id rem totam videtur traxisse." CHAPTER XLI · ¶1386
• and that there are as many and innumerable degrees of mind as there are cubits betwixt this and heaven. But as touching the estimate of men, 'tis strange that, ourselves excepted, no other creature is esteemed beyond its proper qualities; we commend a horse for his strength and sureness of foot, CHAPTER XLII · ¶1392
• "Volucrem Sic laudamus equum, facili cui plurima palma Fervet, et exsultat rauco victoria circo," CHAPTER XLII · ¶1393
• "Regibus hic mos est: ubi equos mercantur, opertos Inspiciunt; ne, si facies, ut saepe, decora Molli fulta pede est, emptorem inducat hiantem" CHAPTER XLII · ¶1396
• "Sapiens, sibique imperiosus, Quern neque pauperies, neque mors, neque vincula terrent; Responsare cupidinibus, contemnere honores Fortis; et in seipso totus teres atque rotundus, Externi ne quid valeat per laeve morari; In quem manca ruit semper fortuna?" CHAPTER XLII · ¶1399
• such a man is five hundred cubits above kingdoms and duchies; he is an absolute monarch in and to himself: CHAPTER XLII · ¶1401
• "Sapiens, . . . Pol! ipse fingit fortunam sibi;" CHAPTER XLII · ¶1402

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