Essays — Michel de Montaigne

Essays

Michel de Montaigne · Licence: Public domain · Source

• To forbid us anything is to make us have a mind to't: CHAPTER XV · ¶2928
• "Nisi to servare puellam Incipis, incipiet desinere esse mea:" CHAPTER XV · ¶2929
• to give it wholly up to us is to beget in us contempt. Want and abundance fall into the same inconvenience: CHAPTER XV · ¶2931
• "Tibi quod superest, mihi quod desit, dolet." CHAPTER XV · ¶2932
• Desire and fruition equally afflict us. The rigors of mistresses are troublesome, but facility, to say truth, still more so; forasmuch as discontent and anger spring from the esteem we have of the thing desired, heat and actuate love, but satiety begets disgust; 'tis a blunt, dull, stupid, tired, and slothful passion: CHAPTER XV · ¶2934
• "Si qua volet regnare diu, contemnat amantem." CHAPTER XV · ¶2935
• "Contemnite, amantes: Sic hodie veniet, si qua negavit heri." CHAPTER XV · ¶2937
• "Et fugit ad salices, et se cupit ante videri." CHAPTER XV · ¶2940
• "Interdum tunica duxit operta moram." CHAPTER XV · ¶2942
• "Quod licet, ingratum est; quod non licet, acrius urit." CHAPTER XV · ¶2947
• We might here introduce the opinion of an ancient upon this occasion, "that executions rather whet than dull the edge of vices: that they do not beget the care of doing well, that being the work of reason and discipline, but only a care not to be taken in doing ill:" CHAPTER XV · ¶2949
• "Latius excisae pestis contagia serpunt." CHAPTER XV · ¶2950
• I do not know that this is true; but I experimentally know, that never civil government was by that means reformed; the order and regimen of manners depend upon some other expedient. CHAPTER XV · ¶2952
• "Furem signata sollicitant . . . aperta effractarius praeterit." CHAPTER XV · ¶2954
• "Gloria in excelsis Deo, et in terra pax hominibus." CHAPTER XVI · ¶2959
• We are in want of beauty, health, wisdom, virtue, and such like essential qualities: exterior ornaments should, be looked after when we have made provision for necessary things. Divinity treats amply and more pertinently of this subject, but I am not much versed in it. CHAPTER XVI · ¶2960
• "Deca vers nous, deca, o tres-louable Ulysse, Et le plus grand honneur don't la Grece fleurisse." CHAPTER XVI · ¶2962
• These philosophers said, that all the glory of the world was not worth an understanding man's holding out his finger to obtain it: CHAPTER XVI · ¶2964
• "Gloria quantalibet quid erit, si gloria tantum est?" CHAPTER XVI · ¶2965
• "EPICUYUS TO HEYMACHUS, health. CHAPTER XVI · ¶2969
• "Paulum sepultae distat inertiae Celata virtus:" CHAPTER XVI · ¶2973
• which is an opinion so false, that I am vexed it could ever enter into the understanding of a man that was honoured with the name of philosopher. CHAPTER XVI · ¶2975
• "Meminerint Deum se habere testem, id est (ut ego arbitror) mentem suam." CHAPTER XVI · ¶2977
• Virtue is a very vain and frivolous thing if it derive its recommendation from glory; and 'tis to no purpose that we endeavour to give it a station by itself, and separate it from fortune; for what is more accidental than reputation? CHAPTER XVI · ¶2979
• "Profecto fortuna in omni re dominatur: ea res cunctas ex libidine magis, quhm ex vero, celebrat, obscuratque." CHAPTER XVI · ¶2980
• "Quasi non sit honestum, quod nobilitatum non sit;" CHAPTER XVI · ¶2983
• "Vera et sapiens animi magnitudo, honestum illud, quod maxime naturam sequitur, in factis positum, non in gloria, judicat." CHAPTER XVI · ¶2986
• All the glory that I pretend to derive from my life is that I have lived it in quiet; in quiet, not according to Metrodorus, or Arcesilaus, or Aristippus, but according to myself. For seeing philosophy has not been able to find out any way to tranquillity that is good in common, let every one seek it in particular. CHAPTER XVI · ¶2988
• "Gloria nostra est testimonium conscientiae nostrae." CHAPTER XVI · ¶2991
• He who is only a good man that men may know it, and that he may be the better esteemed when 'tis known; who will not do well but upon condition that his virtue may be known to men: is one from whom much service is not to be expected: CHAPTER XVI · ¶2993
• "Credo ch 'el reste di quel verno, cose Facesse degne di tener ne conto; Ma fur fin' a quel tempo si nascose, Che non a colpa mia s' hor 'non le conto Perche Orlando a far l'opre virtuose Piu ch'a narrar le poi sempre era pronto; Ne mai fu alcun' de'suoi fatti espresso, Se non quando ebbe i testimonii appresso." CHAPTER XVI · ¶2994
• "Virtus, repulsaa nescia sordidx Intaminatis fulget honoribus Nec sumit, aut ponit secures Arbitrio popularis aura." CHAPTER XVI · ¶2997
• "Non emolumento aliquo, sed ipsius honestatis decore." CHAPTER XVI · ¶3000
• This profit is of much greater advantage, and more worthy to be coveted and hoped for, than, honour and glory, which are no other than a favourable judgment given of us. CHAPTER XVI · ¶3002
• "An quidquam stultius, quam, quos singulos contemnas, eos aliquid putare esse universes?" CHAPTER XVI · ¶3004
• He that makes it his business to please them, will have enough to do and never have done; 'tis a mark that can never be aimed at or hit: CHAPTER XVI · ¶3006
• "Nil tam inaestimabile est, quam animi multitudinis." CHAPTER XVI · ¶3007
• Demetrius pleasantly said of the voice of the people, that he made no more account of that which came from above than of that which came from below. He [Cicero] says more: CHAPTER XVI · ¶3009
• "Ego hoc judico, si quando turpe non sit, tamen non esse non turpe, quum id a multitudine laudatur." CHAPTER XVI · ¶3010
• "Dedit hoc providentia hominibus munus, ut honesta magis juvarent." CHAPTER XVI · ¶3013

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