Essays — Michel de Montaigne

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• "The thinking of pleasure doubles trouble." Chapter XII. Apology For Raimond Sebond.
• Of the same stamp is this other counsel that philosophy gives, only to remember the happiness that is past, and to forget the misadventures we have undergone; as if we had the science of oblivion in our own power, and counsel, wherein we are yet no more to seek. Chapter XII. Apology For Raimond Sebond.
• "Sweet is the memory of by-gone pain." Chapter XII. Apology For Raimond Sebond.
• "Who from mankind the prize of knowledge won, And put the stars out like the rising sun." Chapter XII. Apology For Raimond Sebond.
• To empty and disfurnish the memory, is not this the true way to ignorance? Chapter XII. Apology For Raimond Sebond.
• Iners malorum remedium ignorantia est. Chapter XII. Apology For Raimond Sebond.
• "Ignorance is but a dull remedy for evils." Chapter XII. Apology For Raimond Sebond.
• Potare, et spargere flores Incipiam, patiarque vel inconsultus haberi. Chapter XII. Apology For Raimond Sebond.
• "Give me to drink, and, crown'd with flowers, despise The grave disgrace of being thought unwise." Chapter XII. Apology For Raimond Sebond.
• Pol I me occidistis, amici, Non servastis, ait; cui sic extorta voluptas, Et demptus per vim mentis gratissimus error; Chapter XII. Apology For Raimond Sebond.
• "By heaven! you've killed me, friends, outright, And not preserved me; since my dear delight And pleasing error, by my better sense Unhappily return'd, is banished hence;" Chapter XII. Apology For Raimond Sebond.
• And Ecclesiastes, "In much wisdom there is much sorrow;" and "Who gets wisdom gets labour and trouble." Chapter XII. Apology For Raimond Sebond.
• "If to live well and right thou dost not know, Give way, and leave thy place to those that do. Thou'st eaten, drunk, and play'd to thy content, 'Tis time to make thy parting compliment, Lest youth, more decent in their follies, scoff The nauseous scene, and hiss thee reeling off;" Chapter XII. Apology For Raimond Sebond.
• What is it other than a confession of his impotency, and a sending back not only to ignorance, to be there in safety, but even to stupidity, insensibility, and nonentity? Chapter XII. Apology For Raimond Sebond.
• Democritum postquam matura vetustas Admonuit memorem motus languescere mentis; Sponte sua letho caput obvius obtulit ipse. Chapter XII. Apology For Raimond Sebond.
• "Soon as, through age, Democritus did find A manifest decadence in his mind, He thought he now surviv'd to his own wrong, And went to meet his death, that stay'd too long." Chapter XII. Apology For Raimond Sebond.
• "Or to arrive at virtue or at death;" Chapter XII. Apology For Raimond Sebond.
• Immortalia mortali sermone notantes: Chapter XII. Apology For Raimond Sebond.
• "Giving to things immortal mortal names." Chapter XII. Apology For Raimond Sebond.
• I should have too fair a game should I consider man in his common way of living and in gross; yet I might do it by his own rule, who judges truth not by weight, but by the number of votes. Let us set the people aside, Chapter XII. Apology For Raimond Sebond.
• Qui vigilans stertit,.... Mortua cui vita est prope jam vivo atque videnti; Chapter XII. Apology For Raimond Sebond.
• "Half of his life by lazy sleep's possess'd, And when awake his soul but nods at best;" Chapter XII. Apology For Raimond Sebond.
• Nil sciri quisquis putat, id quoque nescit, An sciri possit; quam se nil scire fatetur. Chapter XII. Apology For Raimond Sebond.
• "He that says nothing can be known, o'erthrows His own opinion, for he nothing knows, So knows not that." Chapter XII. Apology For Raimond Sebond.
• Thus we see that of the three general sects of philosophy, two make open profession of doubt and ignorance; and in that of the Dogmatists, which is the third, it is easy to discover that the greatest part of them only assume this face of confidence and assurance that Chapter XII. Apology For Raimond Sebond.
• "Bombast and riddle best do puppies please, For fools admire and love such things as these; And a dull quibble, wrapt in dubious phrase, Up to the height doth their wise wonder raise." Chapter XII. Apology For Raimond Sebond.
• "God's various works perplex the thoughts of men." Chapter XII. Apology For Raimond Sebond.
• One of the ancients, who was reproached, "That he professed philosophy, of which he nevertheless in his own judgment made no great account," made answer, "That this was truly to philosophize." Chapter XII. Apology For Raimond Sebond.
• "Jove, the almighty, author of all things, The father, mother, of both gods and kings." Chapter XII. Apology For Raimond Sebond.
• Of those to whom they have given a body, as necessity required in that universal blindness, I should, I fancy, most incline to those who adored the sun:-- Chapter XII. Apology For Raimond Sebond.
• forasmuch as, beside this grandeur and beauty of his, 'tis the only piece of this machine that we discover at the remotest distance from us; and by that means so little known that they were pardonable for entering into so great admiration and reverence of it. Chapter XII. Apology For Raimond Sebond.
• Ego Deum genus esse semper duxi, et dicam colitum; Sed eos non curare opinor quid agat humanum genus. Chapter XII. Apology For Raimond Sebond.
• "I ever thought that gods above there were, But do not think they care what men do here." Chapter XII. Apology For Raimond Sebond.
• "From divine natures these so distant are, They are unworthy of that character." Chapter XII. Apology For Raimond Sebond.
• "O earth-born souls! by earth-born passions led, To every spark of heav'nly influence dead! Think ye that what man values will inspire In minds celestial the same base desire?" Chapter XII. Apology For Raimond Sebond.
• "In secret vales and myrtle groves they lie, Nor do cares leave them even when they die." Chapter XII. Apology For Raimond Sebond.
• He Hector was whilst he could fight, but when Dragg'd by Achilles' steeds, no Hector then; Chapter XII. Apology For Raimond Sebond.
• it must be something else that must receive these recompenses:-- Chapter XII. Apology For Raimond Sebond.
• Quod mutatur... dissolvitur; interit ergo; Trajiciuntur enim partes, atque ordine migrant. Chapter XII. Apology For Raimond Sebond.
• "Things changed dissolved are, and therefore die; Their parts are mix'd, and from their order fly." Chapter XII. Apology For Raimond Sebond.

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