Essays — Michel de Montaigne

Essays

Michel de Montaigne · الترخيص: Public domain · المصدر

• "Num tu, qux tenuit dives Achaemenes, Aut pinguis Phrygiae Mygdonias opes, Permutare velis crine Licymnim? Plenas aut Arabum domos, Dum fragrantia detorquet ad oscula Cervicem, aut facili sxvitia negat, Quae poscente magis gaudeat eripi, Interdum rapere occupet?" CHAPTER V. · ¶4059
• I hold it more easy to carry a suit of armour all the days of one's life than a maidenhead; and the vow of virginity of all others is the most noble, as being the hardest to keep: CHAPTER V. · ¶4062
• "Diaboli virtus in lumbis est," CHAPTER V. · ¶4063
• This our immoderate and illegitimate exasperation against this vice springs from the most vain and turbulent disease that afflicts human minds, which is jealousy: CHAPTER V. · ¶4066
• "Quis vetat apposito lumen de lumine sumi? Dent licet assidue, nil tamen inde perit;" CHAPTER V. · ¶4067
• "Ense maritali nemo confossus adulter Purpureo Stygias sanguine tinxit aquas." CHAPTER V. · ¶4070
• Lucullus, Caesar, Pompey, Antony, Cato, and other brave men were cuckolds, and knew it, without making any bustle about it; there was in those days but one coxcomb, Lepidus, that died for grief that his wife had used him so. CHAPTER V. · ¶4072
• "Ah! tum te miserum malique fati, Quem attractis pedibus, patente porta, Percurrent raphanique mugilesque:" CHAPTER V. · ¶4073
• and the god of our poet, when he surprised one of his companions with his wife, satisfied himself by putting them to shame only, CHAPTER V. · ¶4075
• "Atque aliquis de dis non tristibus optat Sic fieri turpis:" CHAPTER V. · ¶4076
• and nevertheless took anger at the lukewarm embraces she gave him; complaining that upon that account she was grown jealous of his affection: CHAPTER V. · ¶4078
• "Quid causas petis ex alto? fiducia cessit Quo tibi, diva, mei?" CHAPTER V. · ¶4079
• nay, she entreats arms for a bastard of hers, CHAPTER V. · ¶4081
• which are freely granted; and Vulcan speaks honourably of AEneas, CHAPTER V. · ¶4084
• with, in truth, a more than human humanity. And I am willing to leave this excess of kindness to the gods: CHAPTER V. · ¶4087
• "Nec divis homines componier aequum est." CHAPTER V. · ¶4088
• As to the confusion of children, besides that the gravest legislators ordain and affect it in their republics, it touches not the women, where this passion is, I know not how, much better seated: CHAPTER V. · ¶4090
• "Saepe etiam Juno, maxima coelicolam, Conjugis in culpa flagravit quotidiana." CHAPTER V. · ¶4091
• "Nullae sunt inimicitiae, nisi amoris, acerbae." CHAPTER V. · ¶4094
• "Notumque furens quid faemina possit," CHAPTER V. · ¶4097
• and a rage which so much the more frets itself, as it is compelled to excuse itself by a pretence of good-will. CHAPTER V. · ¶4099
• "Languidior tenera cui pendens sicula beta, Numquam se mediam sustulit ad tunicam," CHAPTER V. · ¶4102
• "Illud saepe facit, quod sine teste facit;" CHAPTER V. · ¶4105
• and those which we fear the least are, peradventure, most to be feared; their sins that make the least noise are the worst: CHAPTER V. · ¶4107
• "Offendor maecha simpliciore minus." CHAPTER V. · ¶4108
• There are ways by which they may lose their virginity without prostitution, and, which is more, without their knowledge: CHAPTER V. · ¶4110
• "Obsterix, virginis cujusdam integritatem manu velut explorans, sive malevolentia, sive inscitia, sive casu, dum inspicit, perdidit." CHAPTER V. · ¶4111
• "Pone seram; cohibe: sed quis custodiet ipsos Custodes? cauta est, et ab illis incipit uxor." CHAPTER V. · ¶4116
• What commodity will not serve their turn, in so knowing an age? CHAPTER V. · ¶4118
• "Tot qui legionibus imperitivit Et melior quam to multis fuit, improbe, rebus." CHAPTER V. · ¶4121
• Miserable passion! which has this also, that it is incommunicable, CHAPTER V. · ¶4124
• "Fors etiam nostris invidit questibus aures;" CHAPTER V. · ¶4125
• "Materiam culpae prosequiturque suae." CHAPTER V. · ¶4129
• As to the second point; should we not be less cuckolds, if we less feared to be so? according to the humour of women whom interdiction incites, and who are more eager, being forbidden: CHAPTER V. · ¶4131
• "Ubi velis, nolunt; ubi nolis, volunt ultro; Concessa pudet ire via." CHAPTER V. · ¶4132
• "Irarumque omnes effundit habenas:" CHAPTER V. · ¶4135
• he put her to death, and with her a great number of those with whom she had intelligence, and even one of them who could not help it, and whom she had caused to be forced to her bed with scourges. CHAPTER V. · ¶4137
• What Virgil says of Venus and Vulcan, Lucretius had better expressed of a stolen enjoyment betwixt her and Mars: CHAPTER V. · ¶4138
• "Contextus totes virilis est; non sunt circa flosculos occupati." CHAPTER V. · ¶4142
• "Pectus est quod disertum Tacit." CHAPTER V. · ¶4145

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