Essays — Michel de Montaigne

Essays

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• "Inguina succinctus nigri tibi servus aluta Stat, quoties calidis nuda foveris aquis." CHAPTER XLIX · ¶1627
• They all powdered themselves with a certain powder, to moderate their sweats. CHAPTER XLIX · ¶1629
• The ancient Gauls, says Sidonius Apollinaris, wore their hair long before and the hinder part of the head shaved, a fashion that begins to revive in this vicious and effeminate age. CHAPTER XLIX · ¶1630
• The Romans used to pay the watermen their fare at their first stepping into the boat, which we never do till after landing: CHAPTER XLIX · ¶1631
• "Dum aes exigitur, dum mula ligatur, Tota abit hora." CHAPTER XLIX · ¶1632
• The women used to lie on the side of the bed next the wall: and for that reason they called Caesar, CHAPTER XLIX · ¶1634
• They took breath in their drinking, and watered their wine CHAPTER XLIX · ¶1637
• "Quis puer ocius Restinguet ardentis Falerni Pocula praetereunte lympha?" CHAPTER XLIX · ¶1638
• And the roguish looks and gestures of our lackeys were also in use amongst them: CHAPTER XLIX · ¶1640
• "O Jane, a tergo quern nulls ciconia pinsit, Nec manus, auriculas imitari est mobilis albas, Nec lingua, quantum sitiat canis Appula, tantum." CHAPTER XLIX · ¶1641
• The Argian and Roman ladies mourned in white, as ours did formerly and should do still, were I to govern in this point. But there are whole books on this subject. CHAPTER XLIX · ¶1643
• Democritus and Heraclitus were two philosophers, of whom the first, finding human condition ridiculous and vain, never appeared abroad but with a jeering and laughing countenance; whereas Heraclitus commiserating that same condition of ours, appeared always with a sorrowful look, and tears in his eyes: CHAPTER L · ¶1649
• "Alter Ridebat, quoties a limine moverat unum Protuleratque pedem; flebat contrarius alter." CHAPTER L · ¶1650
• "Nec minimo sane discrimine refert, Quo gestu lepores, et quo gallina secetur;" CHAPTER LI · ¶1660
• and all this set out with lofty and magnificent words, the very same we make use of when we discourse of the government of an empire. Which learned lecture of my man brought this of Terence into my memory: CHAPTER LI · ¶1662
• "Hoc salsum est, hoc adustum est, hoc lautum est, parum: Illud recte: iterum sic memento: sedulo Moneo, qux possum, pro mea sapientia. Postremo, tanquam in speculum, in patinas, Demea, Inspicere jubeo, et moneo, quid facto usus sit." CHAPTER LI · ¶1663
• And yet even the Greeks themselves very much admired and highly applauded the order and disposition that Paulus AEmilius observed in the feast he gave them at his return from Macedon. But I do not here speak of effects, I speak of words only. CHAPTER LI · ¶1665
• To hear men talk of metonomies, metaphors, and allegories, and other grammar words, would not one think they signified some rare and exotic form of speaking? And yet they are phrases that come near to the babble of my chambermaid. CHAPTER LI · ¶1667
• "Dum abest quod avemus, id exsuperare videtur Caetera; post aliud, quum contigit illud, avemus, Et sitis aequa tenet." CHAPTER LIII · ¶1675
• "Communi fit vitio naturae, ut invisis, latitantibus atque incognitis rebus magis confidamas, vehementiusque exterreamur." CHAPTER LIII · ¶1681
• Popular and purely natural poesy CHAPTER LIV · ¶1689
• "Mulier tum bene olet, ubi nihil olet." CHAPTER LV · ¶1695
• And such as make use of fine exotic perfumes are with good reason to be suspected of some natural imperfection which they endeavour by these odours to conceal. To smell, though well, is to stink: CHAPTER LV · ¶1697
• "Rides nos, Coracine, nil olentes Malo, quam bene olere, nil olere." CHAPTER LV · ¶1698
• "Posthume, non bene olet, qui bene semper olet." CHAPTER LV · ¶1701
• I am nevertheless a great lover of good smells, and as much abominate the ill ones, which also I scent at a greater distance, I think, than other men: CHAPTER LV · ¶1703
• "Namque sagacius unus odoror, Polypus, an gravis hirsutis cubet hircus in aliis Quam canis acer, ubi latest sus." CHAPTER LV · ¶1704
• My chiefest care in choosing my lodgings is always to avoid a thick and stinking air; and those beautiful cities, Venice and Paris, very much lessen the kindness I have for them, the one by the offensive smell of her marshes, and the other of her dirt. CHAPTER LV · ¶1709
• "Si, nocturnus adulter, Tempora Santonico velas adoperta cucullo." CHAPTER LVI · ¶1716
• "O Jupiter! for that name alone Of what thou art to me is known." CHAPTER LVI · ¶1726
• "Quae, nisi seductis, nequeas committere divis" CHAPTER LVI · ¶1730
• "Hoc igitur, quo to Jovis aurem impellere tentas, Dic agedum Staio: 'proh Jupiter! O bone, clamet, Jupiter!' At sese non clamet Jupiter ipse." CHAPTER LVI · ¶1733
• "Tacito mala vota susurro Concipimus." CHAPTER LVI · ¶1737
• There are few men who durst publish to the world the prayers they make to Almighty God: CHAPTER LVI · ¶1739
• "Haud cuivis promptum est, murmurque, humilesque susurros Tollere de templis, et aperto vivere voto" CHAPTER LVI · ¶1740
• and this is the reason why the Pythagoreans would have them always public and heard by every one, to the end they might not prefer indecent or unjust petitions as this man: CHAPTER LVI · ¶1742
• "Clare quum dixit, Apollo! Labra movet, metuens audiri: Pulcra Laverna, Da mihi fallere, da justum sanctumque videri; Noctem peccatis, et fraudibus objice nubem." CHAPTER LVI · ¶1743
• "Immunis aram si terigit manus, Non sumptuosa blandior hostia Mollivit aversos Penates Farre pio et saliente mica." CHAPTER LVI · ¶1747

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