Essays — Michel de Montaigne

Essays

Michel de Montaigne · License: Public domain · Source

• I seek, in the reading of books, only to please myself by an honest diversion; or, if I study, 'tis for no other science than what treats of the knowledge of myself, and instructs me how to die and how to live well. CHAPTER X · ¶2091
• "Has meus ad metas sudet oportet equus." CHAPTER X · ¶2092
• "O seclum insipiens et inficetum!" CHAPTER X · ¶2097
• "Liquidus, puroque simillimus amni," CHAPTER X · ¶2100
• "Minus illi ingenio laborandum fuit, in cujus locum materia successerat:" CHAPTER X · ¶2103
• These, then, as to this sort of subjects, are the authors that best please me. CHAPTER X · ¶2108
• "Ego vero me minus diu senem mallem, quam esse senem, antequam essem." CHAPTER X · ¶2112
• The historians are my right ball, for they are pleasant and easy, and where man, in general, the knowledge of whom I hunt after, appears more vividly and entire than anywhere else: CHAPTER X · ¶2114
• "Multum sibi adjicit virtus lacessita." CHAPTER XI · ¶2128
• "Sic abiit a vita, ut causam moriendi nactum se esse gauderet." CHAPTER XI · ¶2132
• "Catoni, quum incredibilem natura tribuisset gravitatem, eamque ipse perpetue constantia roboravisset, semperque in proposito consilio permansisset, moriendum potius, quam tyranni vultus aspiciendus, erat." CHAPTER XI · ¶2138
• "Haud ignarus . . . . quantum nova gloria in armis, Et praedulce decus, primo certamine possit." CHAPTER XI · ¶2142
• For this reason it is that, when we judge of a particular action, we are to consider the circumstances, and the whole man by whom it is performed, before we give it a name. CHAPTER XI · ¶2144
• "Si vitiis mediocribus et mea paucis Mendosa est natura, alioqui recta, velut si Egregio inspersos reprehendas corpore naevos:" CHAPTER XI · ¶2146
• "Seu Libra, seu me Scorpius adspicit Formidolosus, pars violentior Natalis hors, seu tyrannus Hesperive Capricornus undae:" CHAPTER XI · ¶2149
• "Quum jam praesagit gaudia corpus, Atque in eo est Venus, ut muliebria conserat arva." CHAPTER XI · ¶2156
• "Quis non malarum, quas amor curas habet, Haec inter obliviscitur?" CHAPTER XI · ¶2159
• "Heu! reliquias semiustas regis, denudatis ossibus, Per terram sanie delibutas foede divexarier." CHAPTER XI · ¶2164
• "Ut homo hominem, non iratus, non timens, tantum spectaturus, occidat." CHAPTER XI · ¶2168
• "Questuque cruentus, Atque imploranti similis," CHAPTER XI · ¶2171
• has ever been to me a very unpleasing sight; and I hardly ever take a beast alive that I do not presently turn out again. Pythagoras bought them of fishermen and fowlers to do the same: CHAPTER XI · ¶2173
• "Primoque a caede ferarum, Incaluisse puto maculatum sanguine ferrum." CHAPTER XI · ¶2174
• "Morte carent animae; semperque, priore relicts Sede, novis domibus vivunt, habitantque receptae." CHAPTER XI · ¶2177
• "Muta ferarum Cogit vincla pati; truculentos ingerit ursis, Praedonesque lupis; fallaces vulpibus addit: Atque ubi per varios annos, per mille figuras CHAPTER XI · ¶2180
• Egit, Lethaeo purgatos flumine, tandem Rursus ad humanae revocat primordia formae:" CHAPTER XI · ¶2181
• If it had been valiant, he lodged it in the body of a lion; if voluptuous, in that of a hog; if timorous, in that of a hart or hare; if malicious, in that of a fox, and so of the rest, till having purified it by this chastisement, it again entered into the body of some other man: CHAPTER XI · ¶2183
• "Ipse ego nam memini, Trojani, tempore belli Panthoides Euphorbus eram." CHAPTER XI · ¶2184
• "Bellux a barbaris propter beneficium consecratae." CHAPTER XI · ¶2187
• "Crocodilon adorat Pars haec; illa pavet saturam serpentibus ibin: Effigies sacri hic nitet aurea cercopitheci; Hic piscem flumints, illic Oppida tota canem venerantur." CHAPTER XI · ¶2189
• Nam cupide eonculcatur nimis ante metutum; Chapter XII. Apology For Raimond Sebond.
• "For with most eagerness they spurn the law, By which they were before most kept in awe;" Chapter XII. Apology For Raimond Sebond.
• resolving to admit nothing for the future to which they had not first interposed their own decrees, and given their particular consent. Chapter XII. Apology For Raimond Sebond.
• As a great rock repels the rolling tides, Chapter XII. Apology For Raimond Sebond.
• That foam and bark about her marble sides, From its strong bulk Chapter XII. Apology For Raimond Sebond.
• I evidently perceive that we do not willingly afford devotion any other offices but those that least suit with our own passions. Chapter XII. Apology For Raimond Sebond.

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