Essays — Michel de Montaigne

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Michel de Montaigne · Licença: Public domain · Fonte

• Edited by William Carew Hazlitt CHAPTER XXXI · ¶3491
• XXXII. Defence of Seneca and Plutarch. XXXIII. The story of Spurina. XXXIV. Means to carry on a war according to Julius Caesar. XXXV. Of three good women. XXXVI. Of the most excellent men. XXXVII. Of the resemblance of children to their fathers. CHAPTER XXXI · ¶3494
• The familiarity I have with these two authors, and the assistance they have lent to my age and to my book, wholly compiled of what I have borrowed from them, oblige me to stand up for their honour. CHAPTER XXXII · ¶3496
• Marcellinus, concerning theft, reports that in his time there was no sort of torments which could compel the Egyptians, when taken in this act, though a people very much addicted to it, so much as to tell their name. CHAPTER XXXII · ¶3500
• And whoever will inquire of our troopers the experiences they have had in our civil wars, will find effects of patience and obstinate resolution in this miserable age of ours, and amongst this rabble even more effeminate than the Egyptians, worthy to be compared with those we have just related of the Spartan virtue. CHAPTER XXXII · ¶3503
• There might, on the contrary, many examples be produced of great men whom pleasures have made to neglect the conduct of their affairs, as Mark Antony and others; but where love and ambition should be in equal balance, and come to jostle with equal forces, I make no doubt but the last would win the prize. CHAPTER XXXIII · ¶3518
• "Qualis gemma micat, fulvum quae dividit aurum, Aut collo decus, aut cupiti: vel quale per artem Inclusum buxo aut Oricia terebintho Lucet ebur," CHAPTER XXXIII · ¶3520
• OBSERVATION ON THE MEANS TO CARRY ON A WAR ACCORDING TO JULIUS CAESAR CHAPTER XXXIV · ¶3524
• I will set down some rare and particular passages of his wars that remain in my memory. CHAPTER XXXIV · ¶3526
• "Rheni mihi Caesar in undis Dux erat; hic socius; facinus quos inquinat, aequat:" CHAPTER XXXIV · ¶3531
• but that this carriage was too mean and low for the dignity of an emperor and general of an army, and therefore brought up the custom of calling them soldiers only. CHAPTER XXXIV · ¶3533
• "Ocyor et coeli fiammis, et tigride foeta." CHAPTER XXXIV · ¶3538
• "Ac veluti montis saxum de, vertice praeceps Cum ruit avulsum vento, seu turbidus imber Proluit, aut annis solvit sublapsa vetustas, Fertur in abruptum magno mons improbus actu, Exultatque solo, silvas, armenta, virosque, Involvens secum." CHAPTER XXXIV · ¶3540
• "Rapuitque ruens in praelia miles, Quod fugiens timuisset, iter; mox uda receptis Membra fovent armis, gelidosque a gurgite, cursu Restituunt artus." CHAPTER XXXIV · ¶3544
• I find him a little more temperate and considerate in his enterprises than Alexander, for this man seems to seek and run headlong upon dangers like an impetuous torrent which attacks and rushes against everything it meets, without choice or discretion; CHAPTER XXXIV · ¶3546
• "Sic tauriformis volvitur Aufidus; Qui regna Dauni perfluit Appuli, Dum saevit, horrendamque cultis Diluviem meditatur agris;" CHAPTER XXXIV · ¶3547
• and, indeed, he was a general in the flower and first heat of his youth, whereas Caesar took up the trade at a ripe and well advanced age; to which may be added that Alexander was of a more sanguine, hot, and choleric constitution, which he also inflamed with wine, from which Caesar was very abstinent. CHAPTER XXXIV · ¶3549
• He was always wont to wear rich garments, and of a shining colour in battle, that he might be the more remarkable and better observed. CHAPTER XXXIV · ¶3554
• "Jactantius moerent, quae minus dolent." CHAPTER XXXV · ¶3562
• I have here, not at all dissenting from our customs, made choice of three women, who have also expressed the utmost of their goodness and affection about their husbands' deaths; yet are they examples of another kind than are now m use, and so austere that they will hardly be drawn into imitation. CHAPTER XXXV · ¶3565
• "Extrema per illos Justitia excedens terris vestigia fecit." CHAPTER XXXV · ¶3567
• The other two were noble and rich, where examples of virtue are rarely lodged. CHAPTER XXXV · ¶3569
• "Casta suo gladium cum traderet Arria Paeto, Quern de visceribus traxerat ipsa suis Si qua fides, vulnus quod feci non dolet, inquit, Sed quod to facies, id mihi, Paete, dolet." CHAPTER XXXV · ¶3571
• If I should be asked my choice among all the men who have come to my knowledge, I should make answer, that methinks I find three more excellent than all the rest. CHAPTER XXXVI · ¶3578
• "Tale facit carmen docta testudine, quale Cynthius impositis temperat articulis:" CHAPTER XXXVI · ¶3580
• "Qui, quid sit pulcrum, quid turpe, quid utile, quid non, Planius ac melius Chrysippo et Crantore dicit:" CHAPTER XXXVI · ¶3583
• "A quo, ceu fonte perenni, Vatum Pieriis ora rigantur aquis" CHAPTER XXXVI · ¶3586
• "Adde Heliconiadum comites, quorum unus Homerus Sceptra potitus;" CHAPTER XXXVI · ¶3589
• "Cujusque ex ore profusos Omnis posteritas latices in carmina duxit, Amnemque in tenues ausa est deducere rivos. Unius foecunda bonis." CHAPTER XXXVI · ¶3592
• "Smyrna, Rhodos, Colophon, Salamis, Chios, Argos, Athenm." CHAPTER XXXVI · ¶3595
• "Impellens quicquid sibi summa petenti Obstaret, gaudensque viam fecisse ruins;" CHAPTER XXXVI · ¶3597
• "Qualis, ubi Oceani perfusus Lucifer unda, Quem Venus ante alios astrorum diligit ignes, Extulit os sacrum coelo, tenebrasque resolvit;" CHAPTER XXXVI · ¶3600
• "Ac velut immissi diversis partibus ignes Arentem in silvam, et virgulta sonantia lauro Aut ubi decursu rapido de montibus altis Dant sonitum spumosi amnes, et in aequora currunt, Quisque suum populatus iter:" CHAPTER XXXVI · ¶3603
• but though Caesar's ambition had been more moderate, it would still be so unhappy, having the ruin of his country and universal mischief to the world for its abominable object, that, all things raked together and put into the balance, I must needs incline to Alexander's side. CHAPTER XXXVI · ¶3605

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