Essays — Michel de Montaigne

Essays

Michel de Montaigne · Άδεια: Public domain · Πηγή

• Non jam se moriens dissolvi conqurreretur; Sed magis ire foras, stemque relinquere ut angais, Gauderet, prealonga senex aut cornua cervus. Chapter XII. Apology For Raimond Sebond.
• "We should not on a death bed grieve to be Dissolved, but rather launch out cheerfully From our old hut, and with the snake, be glad To cast off the corrupted slough we had; Or with th' old stag rejoice to be now clear From the large horns, too ponderous grown to bear." Chapter XII. Apology For Raimond Sebond.
• "I desire to be dissolved," we should say, "and to be with Jesus Christ" The force of Plato's arguments concerning the immortality of the soul set some of his disciples to seek a premature grave, that they might the sooner enjoy the things he had made them hope for. Chapter XII. Apology For Raimond Sebond.
• And God himself envies not men the grace Of seeing and admiring heaven's face; But, rolling it about, he still anew Presents its varied splendour to our view, And on oar minds himself inculcates, so That we th' Almighty mover well may know: Instructing us by seeing him the cause Of ill, to revcreoce and obey his laws." Chapter XII. Apology For Raimond Sebond.
• Si melius quid habes, arcesse; vel imperium fer: Chapter XII. Apology For Raimond Sebond.
• "If you have arguments more fit. Produce them, or to these submit." Chapter XII. Apology For Raimond Sebond.
• "When we the heavenly arch above behold. And the vast sky adorned with stars of gold. And mark the r'eglar course? that the sun And moon in their alternate progress run." Chapter XII. Apology For Raimond Sebond.
• considering the dominion and influence those bodies have, not only over our lives and fortunes; Chapter XII. Apology For Raimond Sebond.
• Facta etenim et vitas hominum suspendit ab aatris; Chapter XII. Apology For Raimond Sebond.
• "Men's lives and actions on the stars depend." Chapter XII. Apology For Raimond Sebond.
• but even over our inclinations, our thoughts and wills, which they govern, incite and agitate at the mercy of their influences, as our reason teaches us; Chapter XII. Apology For Raimond Sebond.
• "Contemplating the stars he finds that they Rule by a secret and a silent sway; And that the enamell'd spheres which roll above Do ever by alternate causes move. And, studying these, he can also foresee, By certain signs, the turns of destiny;" Chapter XII. Apology For Raimond Sebond.
• seeing that not only a man, not only kings, but that monarchies, empires, and all this lower world follow the influence of the celestial motions, Chapter XII. Apology For Raimond Sebond.
• "How great a change a little motion brings! So great this kingdom is that governs kings:" Chapter XII. Apology For Raimond Sebond.
• if our virtue, our vices, our knowledge, and this very discourse we are upon of the power of the stars, and the comparison we are making betwixt them and us, proceed, as our reason supposes, from their favour; Chapter XII. Apology For Raimond Sebond.
• As to the rest, we manifestly discover that they have a full and absolute communication amongst themselves, and that they perfectly understand one another, not only those of the same, but of divers kinds: Chapter XII. Apology For Raimond Sebond.
• "The tamer herds, and wilder sort of brutes. Though we of higher race conclude them mutes. Yet utter dissonant and various notes, From gentler lungs or more distended throats, As fear, or grief, or anger, do them move, Or as they do approach the joys of love." Chapter XII. Apology For Raimond Sebond.
• In one kind of barking of a dog the horse knows there is anger, of another sort of bark he is not afraid. Even in the very beasts that have no voice at all, we easily conclude, from the society of offices we observe amongst them, some other sort of communication: their very motions discover it: Chapter XII. Apology For Raimond Sebond.
• "As infants who, for want of words, devise Expressive motions with their hands and eyes." Chapter XII. Apology For Raimond Sebond.
• "Even silence in a lover Love and passion can discover." Chapter XII. Apology For Raimond Sebond.
• "Hence to the bee some sages have assign'd Some portion of the god and heavenly wind." Chapter XII. Apology For Raimond Sebond.
• "For every one soon finds his natural force. Which he, or better may employ, or worse." Chapter XII. Apology For Raimond Sebond.
• "The earth did first spontaneously afford Choice fruits and wines to furnish out the board; With herbs and flow'rs unsown in verdant fields. But scarce by art so good a harvest yields; Though men and oxen mutually have strove, With all their utmost force the soil t' improve," Chapter XII. Apology For Raimond Sebond.
• the debauchery and irregularity of our appetites outstrips all the inventions we can contrive to satisfy it. Chapter XII. Apology For Raimond Sebond.
• "Thus from one swarm of ants some sally out. To spy another's stock or mark its rout." Chapter XII. Apology For Raimond Sebond.
• "And various birds do from their warbling throats At various times, utter quite different notes, And some their hoarse songs with the seasons change." Chapter XII. Apology For Raimond Sebond.
• All this I have said to prove the resemblance there is in human things, and to bring us back and join us to the crowd. We are neither above nor below the rest All that is under heaven, says the sage, runs one law and one fortune: Chapter XII. Apology For Raimond Sebond.
• "All things remain Bound and entangled in one fatal chain." Chapter XII. Apology For Raimond Sebond.
• There is, indeed, some difference,--there are several orders and degrees; but it is under the aspect of one and the same nature: Chapter XII. Apology For Raimond Sebond.
• "All things by their own rites proceed, and draw Towards their ends, by nature's certain law." Chapter XII. Apology For Raimond Sebond.
• Uire meum, si vis, flamma caput, et pete ferro Corpus, et iutorto verbere terga seca. Chapter XII. Apology For Raimond Sebond.
• "Wound me with steel, or burn my head with fire. Or scourge my shoulders with well-twisted wire." Chapter XII. Apology For Raimond Sebond.
• "The stork with snakes and lizards from the wood And pathless wilds supports her callow brood, While Jove's own eagle, bird of noble blood, Scours the wide country for undaunted food; Sweeps the swift hare or swifter fawn away, And feeds her nestlings with the generous prey." Chapter XII. Apology For Raimond Sebond.
• "The sires of these huge animals were wont The Carthaginian Hannibal to mount; Our leaders also did these beasts bestride, And mounted thus Pyrrhus his foes defied; Nay, more, upon their backs they used to bear Castles with armed cohorts to the war." Chapter XII. Apology For Raimond Sebond.
• "They every one have names, and one and all Straightway appear at their own master's call:" Chapter XII. Apology For Raimond Sebond.
• The chief of all natural actions is generation; we have a certain disposition of members which is the most proper for us to that end; nevertheless, we are ordered by Lucretius to conform to the gesture and posture of the brutes as the most effectual:-- Chapter XII. Apology For Raimond Sebond.
• More ferarum, Quadrupedumque magis ritu, plerumque putantur Concipere uxores: Quia sic loca sumere possunt, Pectoribus positis, sublatis semina lumbis; Chapter XII. Apology For Raimond Sebond.
• and the same authority condemns, as hurtful, those indiscreet and impudent motions which the women have added of their own invention, to whom it proposes the more temperate and modest pattern and practice of the beasts of their own sex:-- Chapter XII. Apology For Raimond Sebond.
• Neque ilia Magno prognatum deposcit consule cunnum. Chapter XII. Apology For Raimond Sebond.
• "Nature, in her pursuit of love, disclaims The pride of titles, and the pomp of names." Chapter XII. Apology For Raimond Sebond.

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