Essays — Michel de Montaigne

Essays

Michel de Montaigne · Άδεια: Public domain · Πηγή

• "Quisquam Vix radicitus e vita se tollit, et eicit; Sed facit esse sui quiddam super inscius ipse, Nec removet satis a projecto corpore sese, et Vindicat." CHAPTER III · ¶260
• "Quaeris, quo jaceas, post obitum, loco? Quo non nata jacent." CHAPTER III · ¶270
• This other restores the sense of repose to a body without a soul: CHAPTER III · ¶272
• "Neque sepulcrum, quo recipiatur, habeat: portum corporis, ubi, remissa human, vita, corpus requiescat a malis." CHAPTER III · ¶273
• THAT THE SOUL EXPENDS ITS PASSIONS UPON FALSE OBJECTS, WHERE THE TRUE ARE WANTING CHAPTER IV · ¶276
• "Ventus ut amittit vires, nisi robore densa Occurrant sylvae, spatio diffusus inani." CHAPTER IV · ¶278
• "Pannonis haud aliter, post ictum saevior ursa, Cui jaculum parva Lybis amentavit habena, Se rotat in vulnus, telumque irata receptum Impetit, et secum fugientem circuit hastam." CHAPTER IV · ¶281
• "Flere omnes repente, et offensare capita." CHAPTER IV · ¶284
• --[Pleasure--unless 'plaisir' were originally 'deplaisir'--must be understood here ironically, for the house was one in which she had been imprisoned.--Seneca, De Ira. iii. 22]-- CHAPTER IV · ¶287
• "Point ne se faut couroucer aux affaires, Il ne leur chault de toutes nos choleres." CHAPTER IV · ¶289
• But we can never enough decry the disorderly sallies of our minds. CHAPTER IV · ¶291
• WHETHER THE GOVERNOR OF A PLACE BESIEGED OUGHT HIMSELF TO GO OUT TO PARLEY CHAPTER V · ¶292
• "Dolus, an virtus, quis in hoste requirat?" CHAPTER V · ¶294
• The Achaians, says Polybius, abhorred all manner of double-dealing in war, not reputing it a victory unless where the courage of the enemy was fairly subdued: CHAPTER V · ¶296
• "Eam vir sanctus et sapiens sciet veram esse victoriam, quae, salva fide et integra dignitate, parabitur."--["An honest and prudent man will acknowledge that only to be a true victory which shall be obtained saving his own good faith and dignity."--Florus, i. 12.]--Says another: CHAPTER V · ¶297
• "Vosne velit, an me, regnare hera, quidve ferat, fors virtute experiamur." CHAPTER V · ¶298
• The ancient Florentines were so far from seeking to obtain any advantage over their enemies by surprise, that they always gave them a month's warning before they drew their army into the field, by the continual tolling of a bell they called Martinella.--[After St. Martin.] CHAPTER V · ¶301
• I could, and do, with great facility, rely upon the faith of another; but I should very unwillingly do it in such a case, as it should thereby be judged that it was rather an effect of my despair and want of courage than voluntarily and out of confidence and security in the faith of him with whom I had to do. CHAPTER V · ¶305
• "Fu il vincer sempremai laudabil cosa, Vincasi o per fortuna, o per ingegno," CHAPTER VI · ¶313
• "Atque idem fugientem baud est dignatus Oroden Sternere, nec jacta caecum dare cuspide vulnus Obvius, adversoque occurrit, seque viro vir Contulit, haud furto melior, sed fortibus armis." CHAPTER VI · ¶316
• "Sicut aqua tremulum labris ubi lumen ahenis, Sole repercussum, aut radiantis imagine lunae, Omnia pervolitat late loca; jamque sub auras Erigitur, summique ferit laquearia tecti." CHAPTER VIII · ¶323
• --in which wild agitation there is no folly, nor idle fancy they do not light upon:-- CHAPTER VIII · ¶325
• "Velut aegri somnia, vanae Finguntur species." CHAPTER VIII · ¶326
• The soul that has no established aim loses itself, for, as it is said-- CHAPTER VIII · ¶328
• "Quisquis ubique habitat, Maxime, nusquam habitat." CHAPTER VIII · ¶329
• "Variam semper dant otia mentem," CHAPTER VIII · ¶332
• "Ut externus alieno pene non sit hominis vice." CHAPTER IX · ¶341
• And how much less sociable is false speaking than silence? CHAPTER IX · ¶343
• "Onc ne furent a touts toutes graces donnees." CHAPTER X · ¶347
• For what concerns oracles, it is certain that a good while before the coming of Jesus Christ they had begun to lose their credit; for we see that Cicero troubled to find out the cause of their decay, and he has these words: CHAPTER XI · ¶353
• "Cur isto modo jam oracula Delphis non eduntur, non modo nostro aetate, sed jam diu; ut nihil possit esse contemptius?" CHAPTER XI · ¶354
• But as to the other prognostics, calculated from the anatomy of beasts at sacrifices (to which purpose Plato does, in part, attribute the natural constitution of the intestines of the beasts themselves), the scraping of poultry, the flight of birds-- CHAPTER XI · ¶356
• "Aves quasdam . . . rerum augurandarum causa natas esse putamus." CHAPTER XI · ¶357
• claps of thunder, the overflowing of rivers-- CHAPTER XI · ¶359
• "Multa cernunt Aruspices, multa Augures provident, multa oraculis declarantur, multa vaticinationibus, multa somniis, multa portentis." CHAPTER XI · ¶360
• "Cur hanc tibi, rector Olympi, Sollicitis visum mortalibus addere curam, Noscant venturas ut dira per omina clades?... Sit subitum, quodcumque paras; sit coeca futuri Mens hominum fati, liceat sperare timenti." CHAPTER XI · ¶363
• "Ne utile quidem est scire quid futurum sit; miserum est enim, nihil proficientem angi," CHAPTER XI · ¶365
• "Prudens futuri temporis exitum Caliginosa nocte premit Deus, Ridetque, si mortalis ultra Fas trepidat." CHAPTER XI · ¶368
• "Ille potens sui Laetusque deget, cui licet in diem Dixisse vixi! cras vel atra Nube polum pater occupato, Vel sole puro." CHAPTER XI · ¶370
• "Laetus in praesens animus; quod ultra est, Oderit curare." CHAPTER XI · ¶372

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