Essays — Michel de Montaigne

Essays

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• "Risi successus posse carere dolos." CHAPTER XVI · ¶3016
• There is I know not what natural sweetness in hearing one's self commended; but we are a great deal too fond of it: CHAPTER XVI · ¶3019
• "Laudari metuam, neque enim mihi cornea fibra est Sed recti finemque extremumque esse recuso Euge tuum, et belle." CHAPTER XVI · ¶3020
• "Falsus honor juvat, et mendax infamia terret Quem nisi mendosum et mendacem?" CHAPTER XVI · ¶3023
• "Non quicquid turbida Roma Elevet, accedas; examenque improbum in illa Castiges trutina: nec to quaesiveris extra." CHAPTER XVI · ¶3026
• "Non levior cippus nunc imprimit ossa? Laudat posteritas! Nunc non e manibus illis, Nunc non a tumulo fortunataque favilla, Nascentur violae?" CHAPTER XVI · ¶3030
• "Casus multis hic cognitus, ac jam Tritus, et a medio fortunae ductus acervo." CHAPTER XVI · ¶3033
• "Ad nos vix tenuis famx perlabitur aura." CHAPTER XVI · ¶3036
• "Recte facti, fecisse merces est: officii fructus, ipsum officium est." CHAPTER XVI · ¶3042
• It were, peradventure, excusable in a painter or other artisan, or in a rhetorician or a grammarian, to endeavour to raise himself a name by his works; but the actions of virtue are too noble in themselves to seek any other reward than from their own value, and especially to seek it in the vanity of human judgments. CHAPTER XVI · ¶3044
• "Ut tragici poetae confugiunt ad deum, cum explicare argumenti exitum non possunt:" CHAPTER XVI · ¶3046
• "In ferrum mens prona viris, animaeque capaces Mortis, et ignavum est rediturae parcere vitae." CHAPTER XVI · ¶3049
• This is a very comfortable belief, however erroneous. Every nation has many such examples of its own; but this subject would require a treatise by itself. CHAPTER XVI · ¶3051
• To add one word more to my former discourse, I would advise the ladies no longer to call that honour which is but their duty: CHAPTER XVI · ¶3052
• "Ut enim consuetudo loquitur, id solum dicitur honestum, quod est populari fama gloriosum;" CHAPTER XVI · ¶3053
• "Qux quia non liceat, non facit, illa facit:" CHAPTER XVI · ¶3056
• "Ille velut fidis arcana sodalibus olim Credebat libris, neque si male cesserat, usquam Decurrens alio, neque si bene: quo fit, ut omnis, Votiva pateat veluri descripta tabella Vita senis;" CHAPTER XVII · ¶3063
• he always committed to paper his actions and thoughts, and there portrayed himself such as he found himself to be: CHAPTER XVII · ¶3065
• "Nec id Rutilio et Scauro citra fidem; aut obtrectationi fuit." CHAPTER XVII · ¶3066
• "Mediocribus esse poetis Non dii, non homines, non concessere columnae." CHAPTER XVII · ¶3072
• I would to God this sentence was written over the doors of all our printers, to forbid the entrance of so many rhymesters! CHAPTER XVII · ¶3074
• "Verum Nihil securius est malo poetae." CHAPTER XVII · ¶3075
• My works are so far from pleasing me, that as often as I review them, they disgust me: CHAPTER XVII · ¶3080
• "Cum relego, scripsisse pudet; quia plurima cerno, Me quoque, qui feci, judice, digna lini." CHAPTER XVII · ¶3081
• "Si quid enim placet, Si quid dulce horninum sensibus influit, Debentur lepidis omnia Gratiis." CHAPTER XVII · ¶3084
• "Brevis esse laboro, Obscurus fio." CHAPTER XVII · ¶3088
• As to the Latin, which was given me for my mother tongue, I have by discontinuance lost the use of speaking it, and, indeed, of writing it too, wherein I formerly had a particular reputation, by which you may see how inconsiderable I am on that side. CHAPTER XVII · ¶3092
• "Agros divisere atque dedere Pro facie cujusque, et viribus ingenioque; Nam facies multum valuit, viresque vigebant." CHAPTER XVII · ¶3094
• "Ipse inter primos praestanti corpore Turnus Vertitur arma, tenens, et toto vertice supra est." CHAPTER XVII · ¶3097
• Our holy and heavenly king, of whom every circumstance is most carefully and with the greatest religion and reverence to be observed, has not himself rejected bodily recommendation, CHAPTER XVII · ¶3099
• "Speciosus forma prae filiis hominum." CHAPTER XVII · ¶3100
• "Unde rigent setis mihi crura, et pectora villis;" CHAPTER XVII · ¶3103
• my health vigorous and sprightly, even to a well advanced age, and rarely troubled with sickness. Such I was, for I do not now make any account of myself, now that I am engaged in the avenues of old age, being already past forty: CHAPTER XVII · ¶3105
• "Minutatim vires et robur adultum Frangit, et in partem pejorem liquitur aetas:" CHAPTER XVII · ¶3106
• what shall be from this time forward, will be but a half-being, and no more me: I every day escape and steal away from myself: CHAPTER XVII · ¶3108
• "Singula de nobis anni praedantur euntes." CHAPTER XVII · ¶3109
• "Molliter austerum studio fallente laborem." CHAPTER XVII · ¶3112
• otherwise, if I am not allured with some pleasure, or have other guide than my own pure and free inclination, I am good for nothing: for I am of a humour that, life and health excepted, there is nothing for which I will bite my nails, and that I will purchase at the price of torment of mind and constraint: CHAPTER XVII · ¶3114
• "Tanti mihi non sit opaci Omnis arena Tagi, quodque in mare volvitur aurum." CHAPTER XVII · ¶3115
• "Non agimur tumidis velis Aquilone secundo, Non tamen adversis aetatem ducimus Austris Viribus, ingenio, specie, virtute, loco, re, Extremi primorum, extremis usque priores." CHAPTER XVII · ¶3119

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