Essays — Michel de Montaigne

Essays

Michel de Montaigne · الترخيص: Public domain · المصدر

• These have been my three favourite and particular occupations; I speak not of those I owe to the world by civil obligation. CHAPTER III · ¶3852
• I was once employed in consoling a lady truly afflicted. Most of their mournings are artificial and ceremonious: CHAPTER IV. · ¶3854
• "Uberibus semper lacrymis, semperque paratis, In statione subatque expectantibus illam, Quo jubeat manare modo." CHAPTER IV. · ¶3855
• "Obstupuit Virgo, nitidique cupidine pomi Declinat cursus, aurumque volubile tollit." CHAPTER IV. · ¶3860
• "Abducendus etiam nonnunquam animus est ad alia studia, sollicitudines, curas, negotia: loci denique mutatione, tanquam aegroti non convalescentes, saepe curandus est." CHAPTER IV. · ¶3863
• 'Tis to little effect directly to jostle a man's infirmities; we neither make him sustain nor repel the attack; we only make him decline and evade it. CHAPTER IV. · ¶3865
• We always think of something else; either the hope of a better life comforts and supports us, or the hope of our children's worth, or the future glory of our name, or the leaving behind the evils of this life, or the vengeance that threatens those who are the causes of our death, administers consolation to us: CHAPTER IV. · ¶3870
• "Spero equidem mediis, si quid pia numina possunt, Supplicia hausurum scopulis, et nomine Dido Saepe vocaturum . . . . Audiam; et haec Manes veniet mihi fama sub imos." CHAPTER IV. · ¶3871
• "Omnes clari et nobilitati labores fiunt tolerabiles;" CHAPTER IV. · ¶3874
• and the same wound, the same fatigue, is not, says Xenophon, so intolerable to a general of an army as to a common soldier. Epaminondas took his death much more cheerfully, having been informed that the victory remained to him: CHAPTER IV. · ¶3876
• "Haec sunt solatia, haec fomenta summorum dolorum;" CHAPTER IV. · ¶3877
• If your passion of love be too violent, disperse it, say they, and they say true; for I have often tried it with advantage: break it into several desires, of which let one be regent, if you will, over the rest; but, lest it should tyrannise and domineer over you, weaken and protract, by dividing and diverting it: CHAPTER IV. · ¶3881
• "Cum morosa vago singultiet inguine vena," CHAPTER IV. · ¶3882
• "Conjicito humorem collectum in corpora quaeque," CHAPTER IV. · ¶3884
• and provide for it in time, lest it prove troublesome to deal with, when it has once seized you: CHAPTER IV. · ¶3886
• "Si non prima novis conturbes vulnera plagis, Volgivagaque vagus venere ante recentia cures." CHAPTER IV. · ¶3887
• If I am not able to contend with it, I escape from it; and in avoiding it, slip out of the way, and make, my doubles; shifting place, business, and company, I secure myself in the crowd of other thoughts and fancies, where it loses my trace, and I escape. CHAPTER IV. · ¶3890
• A little thing will turn and divert us, because a little thing holds us. We do not much consider subjects in gross and singly; they are little and superficial circumstances, or images that touch us, and the outward useless rinds that peel off from the subjects themselves: CHAPTER IV. · ¶3893
• "Folliculos ut nunc teretes aestate cicadae Linquunt." CHAPTER IV. · ¶3894
• "His se stimulis dolor ipse lacessit." CHAPTER IV. · ¶3897
• These are the foundations of our mourning. CHAPTER IV. · ¶3899
• "O prima infelix finger ti terra Prometheo! Ille parum cauti pectoris egit opus Corpora disponens, mentem non vidit in arte; Recta animi primum debuit esse via." CHAPTER IV. · ¶3904
• Edited by William Carew Hazlitt CHAPTER IV. · ¶3910
• V. Upon Some verses of Virgil. CHAPTER IV. · ¶3913
• "Mens intenta suis ne seit usque malis." CHAPTER V. · ¶3916
• I gently turn aside, and avert my eyes from the stormy and cloudy sky I have before me, which, thanks be to God, I regard without fear, but not without meditation and study, and amuse myself in the remembrance of my better years: CHAPTER V. · ¶3918
• "Animus quo perdidit, optat, Atque in praeterita se totus imagine versat." CHAPTER V. · ¶3919
• "Hoc est Vivere bis, vita posse priore frui." CHAPTER V. · ¶3922
• "A natura discedimus; populo nos damus, nullius rei bono auctori." CHAPTER V. · ¶3925
• My philosophy is in action, in natural and present practice, very little in fancy: what if I should take pleasure in playing at cob-nut or to whip a top! CHAPTER V. · ¶3927
• "Non ponebat enim rumores ante salutem." CHAPTER V. · ¶3928
• "Sibi arma, sibi equos, sibi hastas, sibi clavam, sibi pilam, sibi natationes, et cursus habeant: nobis senibus, ex lusionibus multis, talos relinquant et tesseras;" CHAPTER V. · ¶3931
• "Misce stultitiam consiliis brevem." CHAPTER V. · ¶3934
• I accordingly avoid the lightest punctures; and those that formerly would not have rippled the skin, now pierce me through and through: my habit of body is now so naturally declining to ill: CHAPTER V. · ¶3936
• "In fragili corpore odiosa omnis offensio est;" CHAPTER V. · ¶3937
• "Mensque pati durum sustinet aegra nihil." CHAPTER V. · ¶3939
• I have ever been very susceptibly tender as to offences: I am much more tender now, and open throughout. CHAPTER V. · ¶3941
• "Et minimae vires frangere quassa valent." CHAPTER V. · ¶3942
• It is, then, no wonder if a contrary state stupefy and clog my spirit, and produce a contrary effect: CHAPTER V. · ¶3947
• "Ad nullum consurgit opus, cum corpore languet;" CHAPTER V. · ¶3948

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