Essays — Michel de Montaigne

Essays

Michel de Montaigne · Άδεια: Public domain · Πηγή

• "Neither tho' time should gather and restore Our matter to the form it was before, And give again new light to see withal, Would that new figure us concern at all; Or we again ever the same be seen, Our being having interrupted been." Chapter XII. Apology For Raimond Sebond.
• And, Plato, when thou sayest in another place that it shall be the spiritual part of man that will be concerned in the fruition of the recompense of another life, thou tellest us a thing wherein there is as little appearance of truth:-- Chapter XII. Apology For Raimond Sebond.
• Scilicet, avolsis radicibus, ut nequit ullam Dispicere ipsa oculus rem, seorsum corpore toto; Chapter XII. Apology For Raimond Sebond.
• "No more than eyes once from their optics torn, Can ever after any thing discern;" Chapter XII. Apology For Raimond Sebond.
• for, by this account, it would no more be man, nor consequently us, who would be concerned in this enjoyment; for we are composed of two principal essential parts, the separation of which is the death and ruin of our being:-- Chapter XII. Apology For Raimond Sebond.
• Inter enim jecta est vital pausa, vageque Deerrarunt passim motus ab sensibus omnes; Chapter XII. Apology For Raimond Sebond.
• "When once that pause of life is come between, 'Tis just the same as we had never been;" Chapter XII. Apology For Raimond Sebond.
• we cannot say that the man suffers when the worms feed upon his members, and that the earth consumes them:-- Chapter XII. Apology For Raimond Sebond.
• "What's that to us? for we are only we, While soul and body in one frame agree." Chapter XII. Apology For Raimond Sebond.
• "Four sons of Sulmo, four whom Ufens bred, He took in flight, and living victims led, To please the ghost of Pallas, and expire In sacrifice before his fun'ral pyre." Chapter XII. Apology For Raimond Sebond.
• Tantum religio potuit suadere maloram. Chapter XII. Apology For Raimond Sebond.
• "Such impious use was of religion made, So many demon acts it could persuade." Chapter XII. Apology For Raimond Sebond.
• The Carthaginians immolated their own children to Saturn; and those who had none of their own bought of others, the father and mother being in the mean time obliged to assist at the ceremony with a gay and contented countenance. Chapter XII. Apology For Raimond Sebond.
• Et casta inceste, nubendi tempore in ipso, Hostia concideret mactatu mosta parentis; Chapter XII. Apology For Raimond Sebond.
• "That the chaste virgin in her nuptial band Should die by an unnat'ral father's hand;" Chapter XII. Apology For Raimond Sebond.
• "In elder times Religion did commit most fearful crimes." Chapter XII. Apology For Raimond Sebond.
• Now nothing of ours can in any sort be compared or likened unto the divine nature, which will not blemish and stain it with much imperfection. Chapter XII. Apology For Raimond Sebond.
• "The earth, the sea, and skies, from pole to pole, Are small, nay, nothing to the mighty whole." Chapter XII. Apology For Raimond Sebond.
• "That earth, sun, moon, sea, and the rest that are, Not single, but innumerable were." Chapter XII. Apology For Raimond Sebond.
• The most eminent minds of elder times believed it; and some of this age of ours, compelled by the appearances of human reason, do the same; forasmuch as in this fabric that we behold there is nothing single and one, Chapter XII. Apology For Raimond Sebond.
• "Since nothing's single in this mighty place, That can alone beget, alone increase;" Chapter XII. Apology For Raimond Sebond.
• and that all the kinds are multiplied in some number; by which it seems not to be likely that God should have made this work only without a companion; and that the matter of this form should have been totally drained in this individual. Chapter XII. Apology For Raimond Sebond.
• "Wherefore 'tis necessary to confess That there must elsewhere be the like congress Of the like matter, which the airy space Holds fast within its infinite embrace." Chapter XII. Apology For Raimond Sebond.
• * Montaigne here refers to the controversies between the Catholics and Protestants about transubstantiation. Chapter XII. Apology For Raimond Sebond.
• "To-morrow, let it shine or rain, Yet cannot this the past make vain: Nor uncreate and render void That which was yesterday enjoyed." Chapter XII. Apology For Raimond Sebond.
• "They fear their own inventions," Chapter XII. Apology For Raimond Sebond.
• like children who are frighted with the same face of their playfellow, that they themselves have smeared and smutted. _Quasi quicquam infelicius sit homine, cui sua figmenta dominantur:_ Chapter XII. Apology For Raimond Sebond.
• Nosse cui divos et coli munina soli, Aut soli nescire, datum. Chapter XII. Apology For Raimond Sebond.
• "To whom to know the deities of heaven, Or know he knows them not, alone 'tis given." Chapter XII. Apology For Raimond Sebond.
• And here you shall see them participate of our troubles, to make a return for our having so often shared in theirs:-- Chapter XII. Apology For Raimond Sebond.
• "Here lay her armour, here her chariot stood." Chapter XII. Apology For Raimond Sebond.
• O sancte Apollo, qui umbilicum certum terrarum obtines! Chapter XII. Apology For Raimond Sebond.
• "O sacred Phoebus, who with glorious ray, From the earth's centre, dost thy light display." Chapter XII. Apology For Raimond Sebond.
• "Th' Athenians Pallas, Cynthia Crete adore, Vulcan is worshipped on the Lemnian shore. Proud Juno's altars are by Spartans fed, Th' Arcadians worship Faunus, and 'tis said To Mars, by Italy, is homage paid." Chapter XII. Apology For Raimond Sebond.
• to our necessity; this cures horses, that men, Chapter XII. Apology For Raimond Sebond.
• Hic illius arma, Hic currus fuit. Chapter XII. Apology For Raimond Sebond.
• This has only one town or family in his possession; that lives alone; that in company, either voluntary or upon necessity:-- Chapter XII. Apology For Raimond Sebond.
• Junctaque sunt magno templa nepotis avo. Chapter XII. Apology For Raimond Sebond.
• "And temples to the nephew joined are, To those were reared to the great-grandfather." Chapter XII. Apology For Raimond Sebond.
• "Whom, since we yet not worthy think of heaven, We suffer to possess the earth we've given." Chapter XII. Apology For Raimond Sebond.

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