Essays — Michel de Montaigne

Essays

Michel de Montaigne · רישיון: Public domain · מקור

• and yet would have me obliged to it for giving, as it wants to make out, much less consent to this stupidity than is the ordinary case with men of my age. Let us, at least, whilst we have truce, drive away incommodities and difficulties from our commerce: CHAPTER V. · ¶3950
• "Dum licet, obducta solvatur fronte senectus:" CHAPTER V. · ¶3951
• "Tetrica sunt amcenanda jocularibus." CHAPTER V. · ¶3953
• I love a gay and civil wisdom, and fly from all sourness and austerity of manners, all repellent, mien being suspected by me: CHAPTER V. · ¶3955
• "Tristemque vultus tetrici arrogantiam:" CHAPTER V. · ¶3956
• "Et habet tristis quoque turba cinaedos." CHAPTER V. · ¶3958
• I am very much of Plato's opinion, who says that facile or harsh humours are great indications of the good or ill disposition of the mind. Socrates had a constant countenance, but serene and smiling, not sourly austere, like the elder Crassus, whom no one ever saw laugh. Virtue is a pleasant and gay quality. CHAPTER V. · ¶3960
• "Non pudeat dicere, quod non pudet sentire." CHAPTER V. · ¶3962
• I hate a froward and dismal spirit, that slips over all the pleasures of life and seizes and feeds upon misfortunes; like flies, that cannot stick to a smooth and polished body, but fix and repose themselves upon craggy and rough places, and like cupping-glasses, that only suck and attract bad blood. CHAPTER V. · ¶3964
• "Quare vitia sua nemo confitetur? Quia etiam nunc in illia est; somnium narrare vigilantis est." CHAPTER V. · ¶3966
• "Ceux qui par trop fuyant Venus estrivent, Faillent autant que ceulx qui trop la suyvent." CHAPTER V. · ¶3975
• "Tu, dea, rerum naturam sola gubernas, Nec sine to quicquam dias in luminis oras Exoritur, neque fit laetum, nec amabile quidquam." CHAPTER V. · ¶3977
• "Agnosco veteris vestigia flammae;" CHAPTER V. · ¶3980
• There are yet some remains of heat and emotion after the fever: CHAPTER V. · ¶3982
• "Nec mihi deficiat calor hic, hiemantibus annis!" CHAPTER V. · ¶3983
• Withered and drooping as I am, I feel yet some remains of the past ardour: CHAPTER V. · ¶3985
• "Qual l'alto Egeo, per the Aquilone o Noto Cessi, the tutto prima il volse et scosse, Non 's accheta ei pero; ma'l suono e'l moto Ritien del l'onde anco agitate e grosse:" CHAPTER V. · ¶3986
• but from what I understand of it, the force and power of this god are more lively and animated in the picture of poesy than in their own essence: CHAPTER V. · ¶3988
• it has I know not what kind of air, more amorous than love itself. Venus is not so beautiful, naked, alive, and panting, as she is here in Virgil: CHAPTER V. · ¶3991
• "Quo rapiat sitiens Venerem, interiusque recondat." CHAPTER V. · ¶3995
• I see no marriages where the conjugal compatibility sooner fails than those that we contract upon the account of beauty and amorous desires; there should be more solid and constant foundation, and they should proceed with greater circumspection; this furious ardour is worth nothing. CHAPTER V. · ¶3997
• A good marriage, if there be any such, rejects the company and conditions of love, and tries to represent those of friendship. 'Tis a sweet society of life, full of constancy, trust, and an infinite number of useful and solid services and mutual obligations; which any woman who has a right taste: CHAPTER V. · ¶4001
• "Optato quam junxit lumine taeda"-- CHAPTER V. · ¶4002
• "Homo homini aut deus aut lupus," CHAPTER V. · ¶4006
• "Et mihi dulce magis resoluto vivere collo." CHAPTER V. · ¶4009
• (If a man hate superstition he cannot love religion. D.W.) CHAPTER V. · ¶4014
• If a man does not always perform his duty, he ought at least to love and acknowledge it; 'tis treachery to marry without espousing. CHAPTER V. · ¶4015
• "Fatum est in partibus illis Quas sinus abscondit; nam, si tibi sidera cessent, Nil faciet longi mensura incognita nervi;" CHAPTER V. · ¶4018
• "Venus huic erat utraque nota:" CHAPTER V. · ¶4024
• "Adhuc ardens rigidae tentigine vulvae Et lassata viris, nondum satiata, recessit:" CHAPTER V. · ¶4027
• "Sit tandem pudor; aut eamus in jus; Multis mentula millibus redempta, Non est haec tua, Basse; vendidisti;" CHAPTER V. · ¶4031
• "Motus doceri gaudet Ionicos Matura virgo, et frangitur artibus; Jam nunc et incestos amores De tenero, meditatur ungui." CHAPTER V. · ¶4035
• Let them but give themselves the rein a little, let them but enter into liberty of discourse, we are but children to them in this science. Hear them but describe our pursuits and conversation, they will very well make you understand that we bring them nothing they have not known before, and digested without our help. CHAPTER V. · ¶4037
• which these good instructors, nature, youth, and health, are continually inspiring them with; they need not learn, they breed it: CHAPTER V. · ¶4042
• "Nec tantum niveo gavisa est ulla columbo, Compar, vel si quid dicitur improbius, Oscula mordenti semper decerpere rostro, Quantum praecipue multivola est mulier." CHAPTER V. · ¶4043
• "Noncon libelli Stoici inter sericos Jacere pulvillos amant:" CHAPTER V. · ¶4046
• "Nimirum propter continentiam incontinentia necessaria est; incendium ignibus extinguitur." CHAPTER V. · ¶4049
• "Flagitii principium est, nudare inter gives corpora," CHAPTER V. · ¶4052
• should have called to mind, that, as in the mysteries of the Bona Dea, all masculine appearance was excluded, he did nothing, if he did not geld horses and asses, in short, all nature: CHAPTER V. · ¶4054
• "Omne adeo genus in terris, hominumque, ferarumque, Et genus aequoreum, pecudes, pictaeque volucres, In furias ignemque ruunt." CHAPTER V. · ¶4055

חזרההלאה →ספרי אמרות