Essays — Michel de Montaigne

Essays

Michel de Montaigne · Άδεια: Public domain · Πηγή

• "Ne toga cordyllis, ne penula desit olivis; Et laxas scombris saepe dabo tunicas;" CHAPTER XVIII · ¶3243
• "Zon zur l'oeil, ion sur le groin, Zon zur le dos du Sagoin," CHAPTER XVIII · ¶3246
• They had also the trick easily to lend undue praises to all the emperors who made for us, and universally to condemn all the actions of those who were adversaries, as is evidently manifest in the Emperor Julian, surnamed the Apostate, CHAPTER XIX · ¶3254
• "Medio de fonte leporum, Surgit amari aliquid, quod in ipsis fioribus angat." CHAPTER XX · ¶3264
• "Ipsa felicitas, se nisi temperat, premit." CHAPTER XX · ¶3267
• Pleasure chews and grinds us; according to the old Greek verse, which says that the gods sell us all the goods they give us; that is to say, that they give us nothing pure and perfect, and that we do not purchase but at the price of some evil. CHAPTER XX · ¶3269
• and one Attalus in Seneca says, that the memory of our lost friends is as grateful to us, as bitterness in wine, when too old, is to the palate: CHAPTER XX · ¶3273
• "Minister vetuli, puer, Falerni Inger' mi calices amariores"-- CHAPTER XX · ¶3274
• and as apples that have a sweet tartness. CHAPTER XX · ¶3276
• "Nullum sine auctoramento malum est." CHAPTER XX · ¶3278
• "Omne magnum exemplum habet aliquid ex iniquo, quod contra singulos utilitate publics rependitur," CHAPTER XX · ¶3282
• "Volutantibus res inter se pugnantes, obtorpuerunt.... animi." CHAPTER XX · ¶3286
• "Victor, Marce Fabi, revertar ex acie: si fallo, Jovem patrem, Gradivumque Martem aliosque iratos invoco deos." CHAPTER XXI · ¶3295
• "Coacerventurque non solum caede, sed etiam fuga," CHAPTER XXI · ¶3299
• "Per dispositos equos prope incredibili celeritate ab Amphissa tertio die Pellam pervenit." CHAPTER XXII · ¶3306
• And it appears that they were established posts, and not horses purposely laid in upon this occasion. CHAPTER XXII · ¶3308
• Cecina's invention to send back news to his family was much more quick, for he took swallows along with him from home, and turned them out towards their nests when he would send back any news; setting a mark of some colour upon them to signify his meaning, according to what he and his people had before agreed upon. CHAPTER XXII · ¶3309
• In Peru they rode post upon men, who took them upon their shoulders in a certain kind of litters made for that purpose, and ran with such agility that, in their full speed, the first couriers transferred their load to the second without making any stop. CHAPTER XXII · ¶3311
• "Et patimur longae pacis mala; saevior armis Luxuria incumbit." CHAPTER XXIII · ¶3315
• but also to serve for a blood-letting to their Republic, and a little to evaporate the too vehement heat of their youth, to prune and clear the branches from the stock too luxuriant in wood; and to this end it was that they maintained so long a war with Carthage. CHAPTER XXIII · ¶3317
• "Nil mihi tam valde placeat, Rhamnusia virgo, Quod temere invitis suscipiatur heris." CHAPTER XXIII · ¶3320
• "Quid vesani aliud sibi vult ars impia ludi, Quid mortes juvenum, quid sanguine pasta voluptas?" CHAPTER XXIII · ¶3323
• and this custom continued till the Emperor Theodosius' time: CHAPTER XXIII · ¶3325
• "Arripe dilatam tua, dux, in tempora famam, Quodque patris superest, successor laudis habeto Nullus in urbe cadat, cujus sit poena voluptas.... Jam solis contenta feris, infamis arena Nulla cruentatis homicidia ludat in armis." CHAPTER XXIII · ¶3326
• "Consurgit ad ictus, Et, quoties victor ferrum jugulo inserit, illa Delicias ait esse suas, pectusque jacentis Virgo modesta jubet converso pollice rumpi." CHAPTER XXIII · ¶3329
• The first Romans only condemned criminals to this example: but they afterwards employed innocent slaves in the work, and even freemen too, who sold themselves to this purpose, nay, moreover, senators and knights of Rome, and also women: CHAPTER XXIII · ¶3331
• "Nunc caput in mortem vendunt, et funus arena, Atque hostem sibi quisque parat, cum bella quiescunt." CHAPTER XXIII · ¶3332
• "Hos inter fremitus novosque lusus.... Stat sexus rudis insciusque ferri, Et pugnas capit improbus viriles;" CHAPTER XXIII · ¶3334
• which I should think strange and incredible, if we were not accustomed every day to see in our own wars many thousands of men of other nations, for money to stake their blood and their lives in quarrels wherein they have no manner of concern. CHAPTER XXIII · ¶3336
• "Tot Galatae, tot Pontus, tot Lydia, nummis." CHAPTER XXIV · ¶3339
• "Ut haberent instruments servitutis et reges." CHAPTER XXIV · ¶3343
• "Quantum curs potest et ars doloris Desiit fingere Caelius podagram." CHAPTER XXV · ¶3348
• Physicians say that the thumbs are the master fingers of the hand, and that their Latin etymology is derived from "pollere." The Greeks called them 'Avtixeip', as who should say, another hand. And it seems that the Latins also sometimes take it in this sense for the whole hand: CHAPTER XXVI · ¶3357
• "Sed nec vocibus excitata blandis, Molli pollici nec rogata, surgit." CHAPTER XXVI · ¶3358
• It was at Rome a signification of favour to depress and turn in the thumbs: CHAPTER XXVI · ¶3360
• "Fautor utroque tuum laudabit pollice ludum:" CHAPTER XXVI · ¶3361
• and of disfavour to elevate and thrust them outward: CHAPTER XXVI · ¶3363
• "Converso pollice vulgi, Quemlibet occidunt populariter." CHAPTER XXVI · ¶3364

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