Essays — Michel de Montaigne

Essays

Michel de Montaigne · الترخيص: Public domain · المصدر

• "And in those things the difference is so great That what's one's poison is another's meat; For serpents often have been seen, 'tis said, When touch'd with human spittle, to go mad, And bite themselves to death:" Chapter XII. Apology For Raimond Sebond.
• what quality shall we attribute to our spittle? as it affects ourselves, or as it affects the serpent? By which of the two senses shall we prove the true essence that we seek for? Chapter XII. Apology For Raimond Sebond.
• "Besides, whatever jaundic'd eyes do view Looks pale as well as those, and yellow too." Chapter XII. Apology For Raimond Sebond.
• "One lamp seems double, and the men appear Each on two bodies double heads to bear." Chapter XII. Apology For Raimond Sebond.
• Et vulgo faciunt id lutea russaque vela, Et ferrugina, cum, magnis intenta theatris, Per malos vulgata trabesque, trementia pendent; Namque ibi consessum caveai subter, et omnem Scenai speciem, patrum, matrumque, deorumque Inficiunt, coguntque suo volitare colore: Chapter XII. Apology For Raimond Sebond.
• "Thus when pale curtains, or the deeper red, O'er all the spacious theatre are spread, Which mighty masts and sturdy pillars bear, And the loose curtains wanton in the air; Whole streams of colours from the summit flow, The rays divide them in their passage through, And stain the scenes, and men, and gods below:" Chapter XII. Apology For Raimond Sebond.
• 'tis likely that the eyes of animals, which we see to be of divers colours, produce the appearance of bodies the same with their eyes. Chapter XII. Apology For Raimond Sebond.
• Ut cibus in membra atque artus cum diditur omnes, Disperit,, atque aliam naturam sufficit ex se; Chapter XII. Apology For Raimond Sebond.
• "As meats, diffus'd through all the members, lose Their former state, and different things compose;" Chapter XII. Apology For Raimond Sebond.
• "For time the nature of the world translates, And from preceding gives all things new states; Nought like itself remains, but all do range, And nature forces every thing to change." Chapter XII. Apology For Raimond Sebond.
• Edited by William Carew Hazlitt Chapter XII. Apology For Raimond Sebond.
• XIII. Of judging of the death of another. XIV. That the mind hinders itself. XV. That our desires are augmented by difficulty. XVI. Of glory. XVII. Of presumption. Chapter XII. Apology For Raimond Sebond.
• "Provehimur portu, terraeque urbesque recedunt:" CHAPTER XIII · ¶2863
• Whoever saw old age that did not applaud the past and condemn the present time, laying the fault of his misery and discontent upon the world and the manners of men? CHAPTER XIII · ¶2865
• "Jamque caput quassans, grandis suspirat arator. Et cum tempora temporibus praesentia confert Praeteritis, laudat fortunas saepe parentis, Et crepat antiquum genus ut pietate repletum." CHAPTER XIII · ¶2866
• We will make all things go along with us; whence it follows that we consider our death as a very great thing, and that does not so easily pass, nor without the solemn consultation of the stars: CHAPTER XIII · ¶2868
• "Tot circa unum caput tumultuantes dens," CHAPTER XIII · ¶2869
• "Italiam si coelo auctore recusas, Me pete: sola tibi causa est haec justa timoris, Vectorem non nosce tuum; perrumpe procellas, Tutela secure mea." CHAPTER XIII · ¶2872
• "Credit jam digna pericula Caesar Fatis esse suis; tantusne evertere, dixit, Me superis labor est, parva quern puppe sedentem, Tam magno petiere mari;" CHAPTER XIII · ¶2875
• and that idle fancy of the public, that the sun bore on his face mourning for his death a whole year: CHAPTER XIII · ¶2877
• "Ille etiam extincto miseratus Caesare Romam, Cum caput obscura nitidum ferrugine texit:" CHAPTER XIII · ¶2878
• and a thousand of the like, wherewith the world suffers itself to be so easily imposed upon, believing that our interests affect the heavens, and that their infinity is concerned at our ordinary actions: CHAPTER XIII · ¶2880
• "Non tanta caelo societas nobiscum est, ut nostro fato mortalis sit ille quoque siderum fulgor." CHAPTER XIII · ¶2881
• "Vidimus et toto quamvis in corpore caeso Nil anima lethale datum, moremque nefandae, Durum saevitix, pereuntis parcere morti." CHAPTER XIII · ¶2884
• "Impiger. . . ad letum et fortis virtute coacta." CHAPTER XIII · ¶2887
• "Emodi nolo, sed me esse mortem nihil astigmia:" CHAPTER XIII · ¶2891
• 'tis a degree of constancy to which I have experimented, that I can arrive, like those who plunge into dangers, as into the sea, with their eyes shut. CHAPTER XIII · ¶2893
• "Invitum qui servat, idem facit occidenti." CHAPTER XIII · ¶2898
• In fact, such as have been acquainted with these faintings, proceeding from weakness, say that they are therein sensible of no manner of pain, but rather feel a kind of delight, as in the passage to sleep and best. These are studied and digested deaths. CHAPTER XIII · ¶2901
• "Solum certum nihil esse certi, et homine nihil miserius ant superbius." CHAPTER XIV · ¶2905
• There is no reason that has not its contrary, say the wisest of the philosophers. I was just now ruminating on the excellent saying one of the ancients alleges for the contempt of life: "No good can bring pleasure, unless it be that for the loss of which we are beforehand prepared." CHAPTER XV · ¶2908
• "In aequo est dolor amissae rei, et timor amittendae," CHAPTER XV · ¶2909
• "Si nunquam Danaen habuisset ahenea turris, Non esses, Danae, de Jove facta parens;" CHAPTER XV · ¶2912
• and that there is nothing naturally so contrary to our taste as satiety which proceeds from facility; nor anything that so much whets it as rarity and difficulty: CHAPTER XV · ¶2914
• "Omnium rerum voluptas ipso, quo debet fugare, periculo crescit." CHAPTER XV · ¶2915
• "Galla, nega; satiatur amor, nisi gaudia torquent." CHAPTER XV · ¶2917
• To keep love in breath, Lycurgus made a decree that the married people of Lacedaemon should never enjoy one another but by stealth; and that it should be as great a shame to take them in bed together as committing with others. The difficulty of assignations, the danger of surprise, the shame of the morning, CHAPTER XV · ¶2919
• "Et languor, et silentium, Et latere petitus imo Spiritus:" CHAPTER XV · ¶2920
• "Quod petiere, premunt arcte, faciuntque dolorem Corporis, et dentes inlidunt saepe labellis . . . Et stimuli subsunt, qui instigant laedere ad ipsum, Quodcunque est, rabies unde illae germina surgunt." CHAPTER XV · ¶2923
• "Transvolat in medio posita, et fugientia captat." CHAPTER XV · ¶2926

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