Essays — Michel de Montaigne

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• "The heifer thinks it not a shame to take Her lusty sire upon her willing back: The horse his daughter leaps, goats scruple not T' increase the herd by those they have begot; And birds of all sorts do in common live, And by the seed they have conceived conceive." Chapter XII. Apology For Raimond Sebond.
• Quando leoni Fortior eripuit vitam leo? quo nemore unquam Expiravit aper majoris dentibus apri? Chapter XII. Apology For Raimond Sebond.
• "No lion drinks a weaker lion's gore, No boar expires beneath a stronger boar." Chapter XII. Apology For Raimond Sebond.
• Yet are they not universally exempt; witness the furious encounters of bees, and the enterprises of the princes of the contrary armies:-- Chapter XII. Apology For Raimond Sebond.
• "But if contending factions arm the hive, When rival kings in doubtful battle strive, Tumultuous crowds the dread event prepare, And palpitating hearts that beat to war." Chapter XII. Apology For Raimond Sebond.
• I never read this divine description but that, methinks, I there see human folly and vanity represented in their true and lively colours. For these warlike movements, that so ravish us with their astounding noise and horror, this rattle of guns, drums, and cries, Chapter XII. Apology For Raimond Sebond.
• "When burnish'd arms to heaven dart their rays, And many a steely beam i' th' sunlight plays, When trampled is the earth by horse and man, Until the very centre groans again, And that the rocks, struck by the various cries, Reverberate the sound unto the skies;" Chapter XII. Apology For Raimond Sebond.
• in the dreadful embattling of so many thousands of armed men, and so great fury, ardour, and courage, 'tis pleasant to consider by what idle occasions they are excited, and by how light ones appeased:-- Chapter XII. Apology For Raimond Sebond.
• "Of wanton Paris the illicit love Did Greece and Troy to ten years' warfare move:" Chapter XII. Apology For Raimond Sebond.
• 'Cause Anthony is fired with Glaphire's charms Fain would his Fulvia tempt me to her arms. If Anthony be false, what then? must I Be slave to Fulvia's lustful tyranny? Then would a thousand wanton, waspish wives, Chapter XII. Apology For Raimond Sebond.
• (I use my Latin with the liberty of conscience you are pleased to allow me.) Now this great body, with so many fronts, and so many motions, which seems to threaten heaven and earth:-- Chapter XII. Apology For Raimond Sebond.
• "Not thicker billows beat the Lybian main, When pale Orion sits in wintry rain; Nor thicker harvests on rich Hermus rise, Or Lycian fields, when Phobus burns the skies, Than stand these troops: their bucklers ring around; Their trampling turns the turf and shakes the solid ground:" Chapter XII. Apology For Raimond Sebond.
• this furious monster, with so many heads and arms, is yet man--feeble, calamitous, and miserable man! 'Tis but an ant-hill disturbed and provoked:-- Chapter XII. Apology For Raimond Sebond.
• "The black troop marches to the field:" Chapter XII. Apology For Raimond Sebond.
• "Swarm to my bed like bees into their hives. Declare for love, or war, she said; and frown'd: No love I'll grant: to arms bid trumpets sound." Chapter XII. Apology For Raimond Sebond.
• Hi motus animorum, atque hoc certamina tanta, Pulveris exigui jactu compressa quiescent. Chapter XII. Apology For Raimond Sebond.
• "Yet at thy will these dreadful conflicts cease, Throw but a little dust and all is peace." Chapter XII. Apology For Raimond Sebond.
• As to gratitude (for I think we need bring this word into a little repute), this one example, which Apion reports himself to have been an eye-witness of, shall suffice. Chapter XII. Apology For Raimond Sebond.
• We often lament the loss of beasts we love, and so do they the loss of us:-- Chapter XII. Apology For Raimond Sebond.
• "You shall see maneg'd horses in their sleep Sweat, snort, start, tremble, and a clutter keep, As if with all their force they striving were The victor's palm proudly away to bear:" Chapter XII. Apology For Raimond Sebond.
• the hare, that a greyhound imagines in his sleep, after which we see him pant so whilst he sleeps, stretch out his tail, shake his legs, and perfectly represents all the motions of a course, is a hare without fur and without bones:-- Chapter XII. Apology For Raimond Sebond.
• the watch-dogs, that we often observe to snarl in their dreams, and afterwards bark out, and start up as if they perceived some stranger at hand; the stranger that their soul discerns is a man spiritual and imperceptible, without dimension, without colour, and without being:-- Chapter XII. Apology For Raimond Sebond.
• "The fawning whelps of household curs will rise, And, shaking the soft slumber from their eyes, Oft bark and stare at ev'ry one within, As upon faces they had never seen." Chapter XII. Apology For Raimond Sebond.
• Turpis Romano Belgicus ore color: Chapter XII. Apology For Raimond Sebond.
• "A German hue ill suits, a Roman face." Chapter XII. Apology For Raimond Sebond.
• "Whilst all the brutal creatures downward bend Their sight, and to their earthly mother tend, He set man's face aloft, that, with his eyes Uplifted, he might view the starry skies," Chapter XII. Apology For Raimond Sebond.
• Simia quam similis, turpissima bestia, nobis? Chapter XII. Apology For Raimond Sebond.
• "How like to man, in visage and in shape, Is, of all beasts the most uncouth, the ape?" Chapter XII. Apology For Raimond Sebond.
• "The love that's tilting when those parts appear Open to view, flags in the hot career," Chapter XII. Apology For Raimond Sebond.
• "Of this our ladies are full well aware, Which make them, with such privacy and care, Behind the scene all those defects remove, Likely to check the flame of those they love," Chapter XII. Apology For Raimond Sebond.
• Illiterati num minus nervi rigent? Chapter XII. Apology For Raimond Sebond.
• "Th' illiterate ploughman is as fit For Venus' service as the wit:" Chapter XII. Apology For Raimond Sebond.
• or shame and poverty less troublesome to the first than to the last? Chapter XII. Apology For Raimond Sebond.
• "Disease thy couch shall flee, And sorrow and care; yes, thou, be sure, wilt see Long years of happiness, till now unknown." Chapter XII. Apology For Raimond Sebond.
• "In short, the wise is only less than Jove, Rich, free, and handsome; nay, a king above All earthly kings; with health supremely blest, Excepting when a cold disturbs his rest!" Chapter XII. Apology For Raimond Sebond.
• "That god, great Memmus, was a god no doubt Who, prince of life, first found that reason out Now wisdom called; and by his art, who did That life in tempests tost, and darkness hid, Place in so great a calm, and clear a light:" Chapter XII. Apology For Raimond Sebond.
• "The body with a little sting is griev'd, When the most perfect health is not perceiv'd, This only pleases me, that spleen nor gout Neither offend my side nor wring my foot; Excepting these, scarce any one can tell, Or e'er observes, when he's in health and well." Chapter XII. Apology For Raimond Sebond.
• Our well-being is nothing but the not being ill. Which is the reason why that sect of philosophers, which sets the greatest value upon pleasure, has yet fixed it chiefly in unconsciousness of pain. To be freed from ill is the greatest good that man can hope for or desire; as Ennius says,-- Chapter XII. Apology For Raimond Sebond.
• Nimium boni est, cui nihil est mali; Chapter XII. Apology For Raimond Sebond.
• Che ricordarsi il ben doppia la noia. Chapter XII. Apology For Raimond Sebond.

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