Essays — Michel de Montaigne

Essays

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• what remains for him to covet or desire? CHAPTER XLII · ¶1404
• "Nonne videmus, Nil aliud sibi naturam latrare, nisi ut, quoi Corpore sejunctus dolor absit, mente fruatur, Jucundo sensu, cura semotu' metuque?" CHAPTER XLII · ¶1405
• "Scilicet grandes viridi cum luce smaragdi Auto includuntur, teriturque thalassina vestis Assidue, et Veneris sudorem exercita potat;" CHAPTER XLII · ¶1409
• do but peep behind the curtain, and you will see no thing more than an ordinary man, and peradventure more contemptible than the meanest of his subjects: CHAPTER XLII · ¶1411
• "Ille beatus introrsum est, istius bracteata felicitas est;" CHAPTER XLII · ¶1412
• cowardice, irresolution, ambition, spite, and envy agitate him as much as another: CHAPTER XLII · ¶1414
• "Non enim gazae, neque consularis Submovet lictor miseros tumultus Mentis, et curas laqueata circum Tecta volantes." CHAPTER XLII · ¶1415
• Care and fear attack him even in the centre of his battalions: CHAPTER XLII · ¶1417
• "Re veraque metus hominum curaeque sequaces Nec metuunt sonitus armorum, nee fera tela; Audacterque inter reges, rerumque potentes Versantur, neque fulgorem reverentur ab auro." CHAPTER XLII · ¶1418
• "Nee calidae citius decedunt corpore febres Textilibus si in picturis, ostroque rubenti Jactaris, quam si plebeia in veste cubandum est." CHAPTER XLII · ¶1421
• "Puellae Hunc rapiant; quidquid calcaverit hic, rosa fiat," CHAPTER XLII · ¶1424
• what of all that, if he be a fool? even pleasure and good fortune are not relished without vigour and understanding: CHAPTER XLII · ¶1426
• "Haec perinde sunt, ut ilius animus; qui ea possidet Qui uti scit, ei bona; illi, qui non uritur recte, mala." CHAPTER XLII · ¶1427
• Whatever the benefits of fortune are, they yet require a palate to relish them. 'Tis fruition, and not possession, that renders us happy: CHAPTER XLII · ¶1429
• "Totus et argento conflatus, totus et auro;" CHAPTER XLII · ¶1432
• does he not forget his palaces and girandeurs? If he be angry, can his being a prince keep him from looking red and looking pale, and grinding his teeth like a madman? Now, if he be a man of parts and of right nature, royalty adds very little to his happiness; CHAPTER XLII · ¶1434
• "Si ventri bene, si lateri est, pedibusque tuffs, nil Divitix poterunt regales addere majus;" CHAPTER XLII · ¶1435
• "Ut satius multo jam sit parere quietum, Quam regere imperio res velle." CHAPTER XLII · ¶1438
• "Pinguis amor, nimiumque patens, in taedia nobis Vertitur, et, stomacho dulcis ut esca, nocet." CHAPTER XLII · ¶1441
• "Plerumque gratae divitibus vices Mundaeque parvo sub lare pauperum Coenae, sine aulaeis et ostro, Soliicitam explicuere frontem." CHAPTER XLII · ¶1444
• "Paucos servitus, plures servitutem tenent." CHAPTER XLII · ¶1448
• "Maximum hoc regni bonum est Quod facta domini cogitur populus sui Quam ferre, tam laudare." CHAPTER XLII · ¶1451
• In Anacharsis' opinion, the happiest state of government would be where, all other things being equal, precedence should be measured out by the virtues, and repulses by the vices of men. CHAPTER XLII · ¶1456
• "For God sake, sir," replied Cyneas, "tell me what hinders that you may not, if you please, be now in the condition you speak of? Why do you not now at this instant settle yourself in the state you seem to aim at, and spare all the labour and hazard you interpose?" CHAPTER XLII · ¶1458
• "Nimirum, quia non cognovit, qux esset habendi Finis, et omnino quoad crescat vera voluptas." CHAPTER XLII · ¶1459
• I will conclude with an old versicle, that I think very apt to the purpose: CHAPTER XLII · ¶1461
• "Mores cuique sui fingunt fortunam." CHAPTER XLII · ¶1462
• Our kings can do what they please in such external reformations; their own inclination stands in this case for a law: CHAPTER XLIII · ¶1467
• "Quicquid principes faciunt, praecipere videntur." CHAPTER XLIII · ¶1468
• What variety of herbs soever are shufed together in the dish, yet the whole mass is swallowed up under one name of a sallet. In like manner, under the consideration of names, I will make a hodge-podge of divers articles. CHAPTER XLVI · ¶1480
• "Non levia aut ludicra petuntur Praemia;" CHAPTER XLVI · ¶1490
• "Id cinerem et manes credis curare sepultos?" CHAPTER XLVI · ¶1493
• What sense have the two companions in greatest esteem amongst me, Epaminondas, of this fine verse that has been so many ages current in his praise, CHAPTER XLVI · ¶1495
• "Consiliis nostris laus est attrita Laconum;" CHAPTER XLVI · ¶1496
• "A sole exoriente supra Maeotis Paludes Nemo est qui factis me aequiparare queat." CHAPTER XLVI · ¶1499
• Survivors indeed tickle themselves with these fine phrases, and by them incited to jealousy and desire, inconsiderately and according to their own fancy, attribute to the dead this their own feeling, vainly flattering themselves that they shall one day in turn be capable of the same character. However: CHAPTER XLVI · ¶1501
• "Ad haec se Romanus Graiusque, et Barbaras induperator Erexit; caucus discriminis atque laboris Inde habuit: tanto major famae sitis est, quam Virtutis." CHAPTER XLVI · ¶1502
• "Dum fortuna calet, dum conficit omnia terror." CHAPTER XLVII · ¶1510
• "Gravissimi sunt morsus irritatae necessitatis." CHAPTER XLVII · ¶1514
• "Vincitur haud gratis, jugulo qui provocat hostem." CHAPTER XLVII · ¶1516

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