Essays — Michel de Montaigne

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• "The power of the soul's disturbed; and when That once is but sequestered from her, then By the same poison 'tis dispersed abroad;" Chapter XII. Apology For Raimond Sebond.
• "Throughout the limbs diffused, the fierce disease Disturbs the soul, as in the briny seas, The foaming waves to swell and boil we see, Stirred by the wind's impetuosity." Chapter XII. Apology For Raimond Sebond.
• "For when the body's sick, and ill at ease, The mind doth often share in the disease; Wonders, grows wild, and raves, and sometimes by A heavy and a stupid lethargy, Is overcome and cast into a deep, A most profound and everlasting sleep." Chapter XII. Apology For Raimond Sebond.
• This soul loses the use of the sovereign stoical good, so constant and so firm. Our fine human wisdom must here yield, and give up her arms. As to the rest, they also considered, by the vanity of human reason, that the mixture and association of two so contrary things as the mortal and the immortal, was unimaginable:-- Chapter XII. Apology For Raimond Sebond.
• "The mortal and th' eternal, then, to blend, And think they can pursue one common end, Is madness: for what things more diff'rent are. Distinct in nature, and disposed to jar? How can it then be thought that these should bear, When thus conjoined, of harms an equal share?" Chapter XII. Apology For Raimond Sebond.
• Moreover, they perceived the soul tending towards death as well as the body:-- Chapter XII. Apology For Raimond Sebond.
• "Fatigued together with the weight of years:" Chapter XII. Apology For Raimond Sebond.
• "So, often of the gout a man complains, Whose head is, at the same time, free from pains." Chapter XII. Apology For Raimond Sebond.
• Syrius, in the time of King Tullus (though some attribute it to Thales, and others to others), 'tis the part of human science that is treated of with the greatest doubt and Chapter XII. Apology For Raimond Sebond.
• Two things rendered this opinion plausible to them; one, that, without the immortality of souls, there would be nothing whereon to ground the vain hopes of glory, which is a consideration of wonderful Chapter XII. Apology For Raimond Sebond.
• "O, father, is it then to be conceiv'd That any of these spirits, so sublime, Should hence to the celestial regions climb, And thence return to earth to reassume Their sluggish bodies rotting in a tomb? For wretched life whence does such fondness come?" Chapter XII. Apology For Raimond Sebond.
• "Absurd to think that whilst wild beasts beget, Or bear their young, a thousand souls do wait, Expect the falling body, fight and strive Which first shall enter in and make it live." Chapter XII. Apology For Raimond Sebond.
• * The author, as we have already mentioned, is addressing Margaret de Valois. Chapter XII. Apology For Raimond Sebond.
• Chi troppo s'assottiglia, si scavezza. Chapter XII. Apology For Raimond Sebond.
• "Who makes himself too wise, becomes a fool." Chapter XII. Apology For Raimond Sebond.
• Ut hymettia sole Cera remollescit, tractataque poll ice multas Vertitur in facies, ipsoque fit utilis usu; Chapter XII. Apology For Raimond Sebond.
• "As wax doth softer in the sun become, And, tempered 'twixt the finger and the thumb, Will varions forms, and several shapes admit, Till for the present use 'tis rendered fit;" Chapter XII. Apology For Raimond Sebond.
• as much will the second do for the third; which is the cause that the difficulty ought not to make me despair, and my own incapacity as little; for 'tis nothing but my own. Chapter XII. Apology For Raimond Sebond.
• "Vulcan against, for Troy Apollo stood;" Chapter XII. Apology For Raimond Sebond.
• "The last things we find out are always best, And make us to disrelish all the rest." Chapter XII. Apology For Raimond Sebond.
• "Men's minds are influenc'd by th' external air, Dark or serene, as days are foul or fair." Chapter XII. Apology For Raimond Sebond.
• I, that watch myself as narrowly as I can, and that have my eyes continually bent upon myself, like one that has no great business to do elsewhere, Chapter XII. Apology For Raimond Sebond.
• "I care not whom the northern clime reveres, Or what's the king that Tyridates fears," Chapter XII. Apology For Raimond Sebond.
• Velut minuta magno Deprensa navis in mari vesaniente vento. Chapter XII. Apology For Raimond Sebond.
• "Like a small bark that's tost upon the main. When winds tempestuous heave the liquid plain." Chapter XII. Apology For Raimond Sebond.
• "So swelling surges, with a thundering roar, Driv'n on each others' backs, insult the shore, Bound o'er the rocks, encroach upon the land, And far upon the beach heave up the sand; Then backward rapidly they take their way, Repulsed from upper ground, and seek the sea." Chapter XII. Apology For Raimond Sebond.
• "Thus ev'ry thing is changed in course of time, What now is valued passes soon its prime; To which some other thing, despised before, Succeeds, and grows in vogue still more and more; And once received, too faint all praises seem, So highly it is rais'd in men's esteem." Chapter XII. Apology For Raimond Sebond.
• Nam quod adest prosto, placet, et pollere videtur; Chapter XII. Apology For Raimond Sebond.
• "What's present pleases, and appears the best;" Chapter XII. Apology For Raimond Sebond.
• but it remains to be seen whether, as Ptolemy was therein formerly deceived upon the foundation of his reason, it were not very foolish to trust now in what these people say? And whether it is not more likely that this great body, which we call the world, is not quite another thing than what we imagine. Chapter XII. Apology For Raimond Sebond.
• Quid enim ratione timemus, Aut cupimus? Quid tain dextro pede concipis, ut te Conatus non poniteat, votique peracti? Chapter XII. Apology For Raimond Sebond.
• "For what, with reason, do we speak or shun, What plan, how happily soe'r begun, That, when achieved, we do not wish undone?" Chapter XII. Apology For Raimond Sebond.
• And therefore it was that Socrates only begged of the gods that they would give him what they knew to be best for him; and the private and public prayer of the Lacedemonians was simply for good and useful things, referring the choice and election of them to the discretion of the Supreme Power:-- Chapter XII. Apology For Raimond Sebond.
• "We ask for Wives and children; they above Know only, when we have them, what they'll prove;" Chapter XII. Apology For Raimond Sebond.
• "Astonished at the strangeness of the ill, To be so rich, yet miserable still; He wishes now he could his wealth evade, And hates the thing for which before he prayed." Chapter XII. Apology For Raimond Sebond.
• Si consilium vis: Permittee ipsis expendere numinibus, quid Conveniat nobis, rebusque sit utile nostris... Carior est illis homo quam sibi; Chapter XII. Apology For Raimond Sebond.
• "If thou'lt be rul'd, to th' gods thy fortunes trust, Their thoughts are wise, their dispensations just. What best may profit or delight they know, And real good, for fancied bliss, bestow; With eyes of pity, they our frailties scan, More dear to them, than to himself, is man;" Chapter XII. Apology For Raimond Sebond.
• for to require of him honours and commands, is to require 'that he may throw you into a battle, set you upon a cast at dice, or something of the like nature, whereof the issue is to you unknown, and the fruit doubtful. Chapter XII. Apology For Raimond Sebond.
• "I have three guests invited to a feast, And all appear to have a different taste; What shall I give them? What shall I refuse? What one dislikes the other two shall choose; And e'en the very dish you like the best Is acid or insipid to the rest:" Chapter XII. Apology For Raimond Sebond.
• "Not to admire's the only art I know Can make us happy, and can keep us so;" Chapter XII. Apology For Raimond Sebond.

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