Essays — Michel de Montaigne

Essays

Michel de Montaigne · Άδεια: Public domain · Πηγή

• In Lacedaemon, pedagogues chastised their scholars by biting their thumbs. CHAPTER XXVI · ¶3367
• "Nec nisi bellantis gaudet cervice juvenci"-- CHAPTER XXVII · ¶3370
• "Et lupus, et turpes instant morientibus ursi, Et quaecunque minor nobilitate fera est:" CHAPTER XXVII · ¶3373
• If we thought by virtue to be always masters of our enemies, and to triumph over them at pleasure, we should be sorry they should escape from us as they do, by dying: but we have a mind to conquer, more with safety than honour, and, in our quarrel, more pursue the end than the glory. CHAPTER XXVII · ¶3378
• He who stays to see the author die, whose writings he intends to question, what does he say but that he is weak in his aggressiveness? It was told to Aristotle that some one had spoken ill of him: "Let him do more," said he; "let him whip me too, provided I am not there." CHAPTER XXVII · ¶3380
• "Quum in se cuique minimum fiduciae esset," CHAPTER XXVII · ¶3382
• "Primitae juvenum miserae, bellique futuri Dura rudimenta." CHAPTER XXVII · ¶3385
• "Cuncta ferit, dum cuncta timer." CHAPTER XXVII · ¶3393
• "Imponit finem sapiens et rebus honestis." CHAPTER XXVIII · ¶3405
• Our studies and desires should sometime be sensible of age; yet we have one foot in the grave and still our appetites and pursuits spring every day anew within us: CHAPTER XXVIII · ¶3408
• "Tu secanda marmora Locas sub ipsum funus, et, sepulcri Immemor, struis domos." CHAPTER XXVIII · ¶3409
• The longest of my designs is not of above a year's extent; I think of nothing now but ending; rid myself of all new hopes and enterprises; take my last leave of every place I depart from, and every day dispossess myself of what I have. CHAPTER XXVIII · ¶3411
• "Olim jam nec perit quicquam mihi, nec acquiritur.... plus superest viatici quam viae." CHAPTER XXVIII · ¶3412
• "Vixi, et, quem dederat cursum fortuna, peregi." CHAPTER XXVIII · ¶3414
• "Diversos diversa juvant; non omnibus annis Omnia conveniunt." CHAPTER XXVIII · ¶3417
• "Nec viriliter Iners senile penis extulit caput." CHAPTER XXIX · ¶3424
• as soon as ever he came home he deprived himself of the rebellious member, and sent it to his mistress, a cruel and bloody victim for the expiation of his offence. If this had been done upon mature consideration, and upon the account of religion, as the priests of Cybele did, what should we say of so high an action? CHAPTER XXIX · ¶3426
• "Ubi mortifero jacta est fax ultima lecto, Uxorum fusis stat pia turba comis Et certamen habent lethi, quae viva sequatur Conjugium: pudor est non licuisse mori. Ardent victrices, et flammae pectora praebent, Imponuntque suis ora perusta viris." CHAPTER XXIX · ¶3429
• There has not happened in our memory a more admirable effect of resolution than in those two who conspired the death of the Prince of Orange. CHAPTER XXIX · ¶3437
• The Assassins, a nation bordering upon Phoenicia, CHAPTER XXIX · ¶3440
• "Ut quum facts sunt, tum ad conjecturam aliqui interpretatione revocentur;" CHAPTER XXX. · ¶3445
• as 'tis said of Epimenides, that he always prophesied backward. CHAPTER XXX. · ¶3447
• I have just seen a herdsman in Medoc, of about thirty years of age, who has no sign of any genital parts; he has three holes by which he incessantly voids his water; he is bearded, has desire, and seeks contact with women. CHAPTER XXX. · ¶3448
• "Quod crebro videt, non miratur, etiamsi, cur fiat, nescit. Quod ante non vidit, id, si evenerit, ostentum esse censet." CHAPTER XXX. · ¶3450
• Whatever falls out contrary to custom we say is contrary to nature, but nothing, whatever it be, is contrary to her. Let, therefore, this universal and natural reason expel the error and astonishment that novelty brings along with it. CHAPTER XXX. · ¶3452
• "Rabie jecur incendente, feruntur, Praecipites; ut saxa jugis abrupta, quibus mons Subtrahitur, clivoque latus pendente recedit," CHAPTER XXXI · ¶3456
• "Gratum est, quod patria; civem populoque dedisti, Si facis, ut patrix sit idoneus, utilis agris, Utilis et bellorum et pacis rebus agendis." CHAPTER XXXI · ¶3459
• "Ora tument ira, nigrescunt sanguine venae, Lumina Gorgoneo saevius igne micant." CHAPTER XXXI · ¶3463
• Suetonius reports that Caius Rabirius having been condemned by Caesar, the thing that most prevailed upon the people (to whom he had appealed) to determine the cause in his favour, was the animosity and vehemence that Caesar had manifested in that sentence. CHAPTER XXXI · ¶3465
• 'Tis a passion that is pleased with and flatters itself. How often, being moved under a false cause, if the person offending makes a good defence and presents us with a just excuse, are we angry against truth and innocence itself? In proof of which, I remember a marvellous example of antiquity. CHAPTER XXXI · ¶3468
• Of the most choleric man in France (anger is always an imperfection, but more excusable in, a soldier, for in that trade it cannot sometimes be avoided) I often say, that he is the most patient man that I know, and the most discreet in bridling his passions; which rise in him with so great violence and fury, CHAPTER XXXI · ¶3470
• "Magno veluti cum flamma sonore Virgea suggeritur costis undantis ahem, Exsultantque aatu latices, furit intus aquae vis. Fumidus atque alte spumis exuberat amnis, Nec jam se capit unda; volat vapor ater ad auras;" CHAPTER XXXI · ¶3471
• that he must of necessity cruelly constrain himself to moderate it. And for my part, I know no passion which I could with so much violence to myself attempt to cover and conceal; I would not set wisdom at so high a price; and do not so much consider what a man does, as how much it costs him to do no worse. CHAPTER XXXI · ¶3473
• "Omnia vitia in aperto leviora sunt: et tunc perniciosissima, quum simulata sanitate subsident." CHAPTER XXXI · ¶3476
• "Et secum petulans amentia certat:" CHAPTER XXXI · ¶3479
• they attack his shadow, and drive the storm in a place where no one is either chastised or concerned, but in the clamour of their voice. I likewise in quarrels condemn those who huff and vapour without an enemy: those rhodomontades should be reserved to discharge upon the offending party: CHAPTER XXXI · ¶3481
• "Mugitus veluti cum prima in praelia taurus Terrificos ciet, atque irasci in cornua tentat, Arboris obnixus trunco, ventospue lacessit Ictibus, et sparsa ad pugnum proludit arena." CHAPTER XXXI · ¶3482

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