Essays — Michel de Montaigne

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• "Crete, the cradle of Jupiter." Chapter XII. Apology For Raimond Sebond.
• "Gold was the axle, and the beam was gold; The wheels with silver spokes on golden circles roll'd." Chapter XII. Apology For Raimond Sebond.
• You would say that we had had coachmakers, carpenters, and painters, that went up on high to make engines of various motions, and to range the wheelwork and interfacings of the heavenly bodies of differing colours about the axis of necessity, according to Plato:-- Chapter XII. Apology For Raimond Sebond.
• "The world's a mansion that doth all things hold, Which thundering zones, in number five, enfold, Through which a girdle, painted with twelve signs, And that with sparkling constellations, shines, In heaven's arch marks the diurnal course For the sun's chariot and his fiery horse." Chapter XII. Apology For Raimond Sebond.
• 'Tis not to heaven only that art sends her ropes, engines, and wheels; let us consider a little what she says of us ourselves, and of our contexture. Chapter XII. Apology For Raimond Sebond.
• Quod est ante pedes, nemo spectat: coeli scrutantur plagas. Chapter XII. Apology For Raimond Sebond.
• "No man regards what is under his feet; They are always prying towards heaven." Chapter XII. Apology For Raimond Sebond.
• Those people, who find Sebond's arguments too weak, that are ignorant of nothing, that govern the world, that know all,-- Chapter XII. Apology For Raimond Sebond.
• "What governs ocean's tides, And through the various year the seasons guides; Whether the stars by their own proper force, Or foreign power, pursue their wand'ring course; Why shadows darken the pale queen of night; Whence she renews her orb and spreads her light;-- What nature's jarring sympathy can mean;" Chapter XII. Apology For Raimond Sebond.
• "For none the nature of the soul doth know, Whether that it be born with us, or no; Or be infused into us at our birth, And dies with us when we return to earth, Or then descends to the black shades below, Or into other animals does go." Chapter XII. Apology For Raimond Sebond.
• "He vomits up his bloody soul." Chapter XII. Apology For Raimond Sebond.
• Posidonius, Cleanthes, and Galen, that it was heat or a hot complexion-- Chapter XII. Apology For Raimond Sebond.
• Igneus est ollis vigor, et colestis origo; Chapter XII. Apology For Raimond Sebond.
• "Their vigour of fire and of heavenly race." Chapter XII. Apology For Raimond Sebond.
• "A certain vital habit in man's frame, Which harmony the Grecian sages name." Chapter XII. Apology For Raimond Sebond.
• Heraclitus, who was of opinion that every being was full of souls and demons, did nevertheless maintain that no one could advance so far towards the knowledge of the soul as ever to arrive at it; so profound was the essence of it. Chapter XII. Apology For Raimond Sebond.
• Neither is there less controversy and debate about seating of it. Hippocrates and Hierophilus place it in the ventricle of the brain; Democritus and Aristotle throughout the whole body;-- Chapter XII. Apology For Raimond Sebond.
• "As when the body's health they do it call, When of a sound man, that's no part at all." Chapter XII. Apology For Raimond Sebond.
• "For this the seat of horror is and fear, And joys in turn do likewise triumph here." Chapter XII. Apology For Raimond Sebond.
• But to return to the soul. Inasmuch as Plato has placed reason in the brain, anger in the heart, and concupiscence in the liver; 'tis likely that it was rather an interpretation of the movements of Chapter XII. Apology For Raimond Sebond.
• "Phoebus ne'er deviates from the zodiac's way; Yet all things doth illustrate with his ray." Chapter XII. Apology For Raimond Sebond.
• As the sun sheds from heaven its light and influence, and fills the world with them:-- Chapter XII. Apology For Raimond Sebond.
• "The other part o' th' soul diffus'd all o'er The body, does obey the reason's lore." Chapter XII. Apology For Raimond Sebond.
• Some have said that there was a general soul, as it were a great body, whence all the particular souls were extracted, and thither again return, always restoring themselves to that universal matter:-- Chapter XII. Apology For Raimond Sebond.
• Deum namque ire per omnes Terrasque, tractusque maris, columque profundum; Hinc pecudes, armenta, viros, genus omne ferarum, Quemque sibi tenues nascentem arcessere vitas: Scilicet hue reddi deinde, ac resoluta referri Omnia; nec morti esse locum: Chapter XII. Apology For Raimond Sebond.
• Instillata patris virtus tibi; Fortes creantur fortibus, et bonis; Chapter XII. Apology For Raimond Sebond.
• "Thou hast thy father's virtues with his blood: For still the brave spring from the brave and good;" Chapter XII. Apology For Raimond Sebond.
• and that we see descend from fathers to their children not only bodily marks, but moreover a resemblance of humours, complexions, and inclinations of the soul:-- Chapter XII. Apology For Raimond Sebond.
• "For why should rage from the fierce lion's seed, Or from the subtle fox's craft, proceed; Or why the tim'rous and flying hart His fear and trembling to his race impart; But that a certain force of mind does grow, And still increases as the bodies do?" Chapter XII. Apology For Raimond Sebond.
• "For at our birth if it infused be, Why do we then retain no memory Of our foregoing life, and why no more Remember any thing we did before?" Chapter XII. Apology For Raimond Sebond.
• Nam si tantopere est anirai mutata potestas, Omnia ut actarum exciderit retinentia rerum, Non, ut opinor, ea ab letho jam longior errat. Chapter XII. Apology For Raimond Sebond.
• "For if the mind be changed to that degree As of past things to lose all memory, So great a change as that, I must confess, Appears to me than death but little less." Chapter XII. Apology For Raimond Sebond.
• Gigni pariter cum corpore, et una Crescere sentimus, pariterque senescere mentem. Chapter XII. Apology For Raimond Sebond.
• "Souls with the bodies to be born we may Discern, with them t' increase, with them decay." Chapter XII. Apology For Raimond Sebond.
• They perceived it to be capable of divers passions, and agitated with divers painful motions, whence it fell into lassitude and uneasiness; capable of alteration and change, of cheerfulness, of stupidity and languor, and subject to diseases and injuries, as the stomach or the foot; Chapter XII. Apology For Raimond Sebond.
• "Sick minds, as well as bodies, we do see By Med'cine's virtue oft restored to be;" Chapter XII. Apology For Raimond Sebond.
• dazzled and intoxicated with the fumes of wine, jostled from her seat by the vapours of a burning fever, laid asleep by the application of some medicaments, and roused by others,-- Chapter XII. Apology For Raimond Sebond.
• Corpoream naturam animi esse necesse est, Corporeis quoniam telis ictuque laborat; Chapter XII. Apology For Raimond Sebond.
• "There must be of necessity, we find, A nature that's corporeal of the mind, Because we evidently see it smarts And wounded is with shafts the body darts;" Chapter XII. Apology For Raimond Sebond.
• Vis.... animal Conturbatur, et.... divisa seorsum Disjectatur, eodem illo distracta veneno; Chapter XII. Apology For Raimond Sebond.

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