Essays — Michel de Montaigne

Essays

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• Gentes esse ferantur, In quibus et nato genitrix, et nata parenti Jungitur, et pietas geminato crescit amore; Chapter XII. Apology For Raimond Sebond.
• "There are some nations in the world, 'tis said, Where fathers daughters, sons their mothers wed; And their affections thereby higher rise, More firm and constant by these double ties;" Chapter XII. Apology For Raimond Sebond.
• the murder of infants, the murder of fathers, the community of wives, traffic of robberies, license in all sorts of voluptuousness; in short, there is nothing so extreme that is not allowed by the custom of some nation or other. Chapter XII. Apology For Raimond Sebond.
• "War, war is threatened from this foreign ground (My father cried), where warlike steeds are found. Yet, since reclaimed, to chariots they submit, And bend to stubborn yokes, and champ the bit, Peace may succeed to war." Chapter XII. Apology For Raimond Sebond.
• Inde furor vulgi, quod numina vicinorum Odit quisque locus, cum solos credat habendos Esse deos, quos ipse colit. Chapter XII. Apology For Raimond Sebond.
• "Thus 'tis the popular fury that creates That all their neighbours' gods each nation hates; Each thinks its own the genuine; in a word, The only deities to be adored." Chapter XII. Apology For Raimond Sebond.
• Laws derive their authority from possession and custom. 'Tis dangerous to trace them back to their beginning; they grow great, and ennoble themselves, like our rivers, by running on; but follow them upward to their source, 'tis but a little spring, scarce discernable, Chapter XII. Apology For Raimond Sebond.
• This experience diversifies itself in a thousand examples:-- Chapter XII. Apology For Raimond Sebond.
• A philosopher being taken in the very act, and asked what he was doing, coldly replied, "I am planting man;" no more blushing to be so caught than if they had found him planting garlic. Chapter XII. Apology For Raimond Sebond.
• Via qua munita fidei Proxima fert humanum in pectus, templaque mentis; Chapter XII. Apology For Raimond Sebond.
• "It is the surest path that faith can find By which to enter human heart and mind." Chapter XII. Apology For Raimond Sebond.
• Invenies primis ab sensibns esse creatam Notitiam veil; neque sensus posse refelli.... Quid majore fide porro, quam sensus, haberi Debet? Chapter XII. Apology For Raimond Sebond.
• "Of truth, whate'er discoveries are made, Are by the senses to us first conveyed; Nor will one sense be baffled; for on what Can we rely more safely than on that?" Chapter XII. Apology For Raimond Sebond.
• An poterunt oculos aures reprehendere? an aures Tactus an hunc porro tactum sapor argnet oris? An confutabunt nares, oculive revincent? Chapter XII. Apology For Raimond Sebond.
• "Can ears the eyes, the touch the ears, correct? Or is that touch by tasting to be check'd? Or th' other senses, shall the nose or eyes Confute in their peculiar faculties?" Chapter XII. Apology For Raimond Sebond.
• They all make the extremest limits of our ability:-- Chapter XII. Apology For Raimond Sebond.
• Seorsum cuique potestas Divisa est, sua vis cuique est, Chapter XII. Apology For Raimond Sebond.
• "Each has its power distinctly and alone, And every sense's power is its own." Chapter XII. Apology For Raimond Sebond.
• Quidquid id est, nihilo fertur majore figura, Quam nostris oculis quam cemimus, esse videtur: Chapter XII. Apology For Raimond Sebond.
• "But be it what it will in our esteems, It is no bigger than to us it seems:" Chapter XII. Apology For Raimond Sebond.
• that the appearances which represent a body great to him that is near, and less to him that is more remote, are both true:-- Chapter XII. Apology For Raimond Sebond.
• Nee tamen hic oculos falli concedimus hilum.... Proinde animi vitium hoc oculis adfingere noli: Chapter XII. Apology For Raimond Sebond.
• "Yet that the eye's deluded we deny; Charge not the mind's faults, therefore, on the eye:" Chapter XII. Apology For Raimond Sebond.
• As to the error and uncertainty of the operation of the senses, every one may furnish himself with as many examples as he pleases; so ordinary are the faults and tricks they put upon us. In the echo of a valley the sound of a trumpet seems to meet us, which comes from a place behind:-- Chapter XII. Apology For Raimond Sebond.
• "By dress we're won; gold, gems, and rich brocades Make up the pageant that your heart invades; In all that glittering figure which you see, The far least part of her own self is she; In vain for her you love amidst such cost You search, the mistress in such dress is lost." Chapter XII. Apology For Raimond Sebond.
• What a strange power do the poets attribute to the senses, that make Narcissus so desperately in love with his own shadow, Chapter XII. Apology For Raimond Sebond.
• Cunctaque miratur, quibus est mirabilis ipse; Se cupit imprudens, et, qui probat, ipse probatur; Dumque petit, petitur; pariterque accendit, et ardet: Chapter XII. Apology For Raimond Sebond.
• "Admireth all; for which to be admired; And inconsiderately himself desir'd. The praises which he gives his beauty claim'd, Who seeks is sought, th' inflamer is inflam'd:" Chapter XII. Apology For Raimond Sebond.
• and Pygmalion's judgment so troubled by the impression of the sight of his ivory statue that he loves and adores it as if it were a living woman! Chapter XII. Apology For Raimond Sebond.
• Oscnla dat, reddique putat: sequi turque, tenetque, Et credit tactis digitos insidere membris; Et metuit, pressos veniat ne livor in artus. Chapter XII. Apology For Raimond Sebond.
• "He kisses, and believes he's kissed again; Seizes, and 'twixt his arms his love doth strain, And thinks the polish'd ivory thus held Doth to his fingers amorous pressure yield, And has a timorous fear, lest black and blue Should in the parts with ardour press'd ensue." Chapter XII. Apology For Raimond Sebond.
• The same cheat that the senses put upon our understanding they have in turn put upon them; the soul also some times has its revenge; they lie and contend which should most deceive one another. What we see and hear when we are transported with passion, we neither see nor hear as it is:-- Chapter XII. Apology For Raimond Sebond.
• Et solem geminum, et duplices se ostendere Thebas. Chapter XII. Apology For Raimond Sebond.
• "Thebes seems two cities, and the sun two suns." Chapter XII. Apology For Raimond Sebond.
• The object that we love appears to us more beautiful than it really is; Chapter XII. Apology For Raimond Sebond.
• Multimodis igitur pravas turpesque videmus Esse in deliciis, summoque in honore vigere; Chapter XII. Apology For Raimond Sebond.
• "Hence 'tis that ugly things in fancied dress Seem gay, look fair to lovers' eyes, and please;" Chapter XII. Apology For Raimond Sebond.
• and that we hate more ugly; to a discontented and afflicted man the light of the day seems dark and overcast. Our senses are not only depraved, but very often stupefied by the passions of the soul; how many things do we see that we do not take notice of, if the mind be occupied with other thoughts? Chapter XII. Apology For Raimond Sebond.
• "Nay, even in plainest things, unless the mind Take heed, unless she sets herself to find, The thing no more is seen, no more belov'd, Than if the most obscure and most remov'd:" Chapter XII. Apology For Raimond Sebond.
• it would appear that the soul retires within, and amuses the powers of the senses. And so both the inside and the outside of man is full of infirmity and falsehood. Chapter XII. Apology For Raimond Sebond.

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