Essays — Michel de Montaigne

Essays

Michel de Montaigne · Licencia: Public domain · Fuente

• "Humani a se nihil alienum putet." CHAPTER II · ¶1855
• The poets, that feign all things at pleasure, dare not acquit their greatest heroes of tears: CHAPTER II · ¶1857
• "Sic fatur lacrymans, classique immittit habenas." CHAPTER II · ¶1858
• Let us leave that other sect, that sets up an express profession of scornful superiority--[The Stoics.]--: but when even in that sect, reputed the most quiet and gentle, we hear these rhodomontades of Metrodorus: CHAPTER II · ¶1861
• "Occupavi te, Fortuna, atque cepi: omnesque aditus tuos interclusi ut ad me aspirare non posses;" CHAPTER II · ¶1862
• "Spumantemque dari, pecora inter inertia, votis Optat aprum, aut fulvum descendere monte leonem:" CHAPTER II · ¶1865
• If to philosophise be, as 'tis defined, to doubt, much more to write at random and play the fool, as I do, ought to be reputed doubting, for it is for novices and freshmen to inquire and to dispute, and for the chairman to moderate and determine. CHAPTER III · ¶1870
• My moderator is the authority of the divine will, that governs us without contradiction, and that is seated above these human and vain contestations. CHAPTER III · ¶1871
• "Ubique mors est; optime hoc cavit deus. Eripere vitam nemo non homini potest; At nemo mortem; mille ad hanc aditus patent." CHAPTER III · ¶1873
• And in fact, not long after, Speusippus, weary of so languishing a state of life, found a means to die. CHAPTER III · ¶1876
• "Proxima deinde tenent maesti loca, qui sibi letum Insontes peperere manu, lucemque perosi Proiecere animas." CHAPTER III · ¶1878
• "Duris ut ilex tonsa bipennibus Nigrae feraci frondis in Algido, Per damma, percmdes, ab ipso Ducit opes, animumque ferro." CHAPTER III · ¶1881
• "Non est, ut putas, virtus, pater, Timere vitam; sed malis ingentibus Obstare, nec se vertere, ac retro dare." CHAPTER III · ¶1884
• "Rebus in adversis facile est contemnere mortem Fortius ille facit, qui miser esse potest." CHAPTER III · ¶1887
• 'Tis cowardice, not virtue, to lie squat in a furrow, under a tomb, to evade the blows of fortune; virtue never stops nor goes out of her path, for the greatest storm that blows: CHAPTER III · ¶1889
• "Si fractus illabatur orbis, Impavidum ferient ruinae." CHAPTER III · ¶1890
• For the most part, the flying from other inconveniences brings us to this; nay, endeavouring to evade death, we often run into its very mouth: CHAPTER III · ¶1892
• "Hic, rogo, non furor est, ne moriare, mori?" CHAPTER III · ¶1893
• like those who, from fear of a precipice, throw themselves headlong into it; CHAPTER III · ¶1895
• "Multos in summa pericula misfit Venturi timor ipse mali: fortissimus ille est, Qui promptus metuenda pati, si cominus instent, Et differre potest." CHAPTER III · ¶1896
• "Usque adeo, mortis formidine, vitae Percipit humanos odium, lucisque videndae, Ut sibi consciscant moerenti pectore lethum Obliti fontem curarum hunc esse timorem." CHAPTER III · ¶1898
• "Debet enim, misere cui forti, aegreque futurum est, Ipse quoque esse in eo turn tempore, cum male possit Accidere." CHAPTER III · ¶1901
• Security, indolence, impassability, the privation of the evils of this life, which we pretend to purchase at the price of dying, are of no manner of advantage to us: that man evades war to very little purpose who can have no fruition of peace; and as little to the purpose does he avoid trouble who cannot enjoy repose. CHAPTER III · ¶1903
• "Sperat et in saeva victus gladiator arena, Sit licet infesto pollice turba minax." CHAPTER III · ¶1905
• "Aliquis carnifici suo superstes fuit." CHAPTER III · ¶1908
• "Multa dies, variusque labor mutabilis nevi Rettulit in melius; multos alterna revisens Lusit, et in solido rursus fortuna locavit." CHAPTER III · ¶1910
• Piny says there are but three sorts of diseases, to escape which a man has good title to destroy himself; the worst of which is the stone in the bladder, when the urine is suppressed. CHAPTER III · ¶1912
• "Un doulx nenny, avec un doulx sourire Est tant honneste."--Marot. CHAPTER III · ¶1918
• The condemned who would live to be executed in the reign of Tiberius, forfeited their goods and were denied the rites of sepulture; those who, by killing themselves, anticipated it, were interred, and had liberty to dispose of their estates by will. CHAPTER III · ¶1925
• "Occultum quatiens animo tortore flagellum." CHAPTER V · ¶1938
• "Malum consilium consultori pessimum." CHAPTER V · ¶1941
• as the wasp stings and hurts another, but most of all itself, for it there loses its sting and its use for ever, CHAPTER V · ¶1943
• Cantharides have somewhere about them, by a contrariety of nature, a counterpoison against their poison. In like manner, at the same time that men take delight in vice, there springs in the conscience a displeasure that afflicts us sleeping and waking with various tormenting imaginations: CHAPTER V · ¶1946
• "Quippe ubi se multi, per somnia saepe loquentes, Aut morbo delirantes, protraxe ferantur, Et celata diu in medium peccata dedisse." CHAPTER V · ¶1947
• "Prima est haec ultio, quod se Judice nemo nocens absohitur." CHAPTER V · ¶1950
• As an ill conscience fills us with fear, so a good one gives us greater confidence and assurance; and I can truly say that I have gone through several hazards with a more steady pace in consideration of the secret knowledge I had of my own will and the innocence of my intentions: CHAPTER V · ¶1952
• "Conscia mens ut cuique sua est, ita concipit intra Pectora pro facto spemque metumque suo." CHAPTER V · ¶1953
• "Etiam innocentes cogit mentiri dolor." CHAPTER V · ¶1956
• "Nemo expergitus exstat, Frigida quern semel est vitai pausa sequuta." CHAPTER VI · ¶1963
• "Jus hoc animi morientis habebat." CHAPTER VI · ¶1966

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