Essays — Michel de Montaigne

Essays

Michel de Montaigne · Licencia: Public domain · Fuente

• "Quaenam ista jocandi Saevitia!" CHAPTER V. · ¶4156
• "Ridentem dicere verum Quid vetat?" CHAPTER V. · ¶4159
• "Exilioque domos et dulcia limina mutant," CHAPTER V. · ¶4168
• "O miseri! quorum gaudia crimen habent!" CHAPTER V. · ¶4171
• "Et nudum pressi corpus ad usque meum:" CHAPTER V. · ¶4175
• "Postquam cupidae mentis satiata libido est, Verba nihil metuere, nihil perjuria curant;" CHAPTER V. · ¶4179
• "Cujus livida naribus caninis Dependet glacies, rigetque barba . . . Centum occurrere malo culilingis:" Martial, vii. 94. CHAPTER V. · ¶4182
• and we ourselves barely gain by it; for as the world is divided, for three beautiful women we must kiss fifty ugly ones; and to a tender stomach, like those of my age, an ill kiss overpays a good one. CHAPTER V. · ¶4183
• "Tanquam thura merumque parent Absentem marmoreamve putes:" CHAPTER V. · ¶4185
• I know some who had rather lend that than their coach, and who only impart themselves that way. You are to examine whether your company pleases them upon any other account, or, as some strong-chined groom, for that only; in what degree of favour and esteem you are with them: CHAPTER V. · ¶4187
• "Tibi si datur uni, Quem lapide illa diem candidiore notat." CHAPTER V. · ¶4188
• What if they eat your bread with the sauce of a more pleasing imagination. CHAPTER V. · ¶4190
• "Te tenet, absentes alios suspirat amores." CHAPTER V. · ¶4191
• What? have we not seen one in these days of ours who made use of this act for the purpose of a most horrid revenge, by that means to kill and poison, as he did, a worthy lady? CHAPTER V. · ¶4193
• "Luxuria ipsis vinculis, sicut fera bestia, irritata, deinde emissa." CHAPTER V. · ¶4195
• They must give them a little more rein: CHAPTER V. · ¶4197
• "Vidi ego nuper equum, contra sua frena tenacem, Ore reluctanti fulminis ire modo": CHAPTER V. · ¶4198
• "Experta latus, madidoque simillima loro Inguina, nec lassa stare coacta manu, Deserit imbelles thalamos." CHAPTER V. · ¶4204
• 'Tis not enough that a man's will be good; weakness and insufficiency lawfully break a marriage, CHAPTER V. · ¶4206
• "Et quaerendum aliunde foret nervosius illud, Quod posset zonam solvere virgineam:" CHAPTER V. · ¶4207
• why not? and according to her own standard, an amorous intelligence, more licentious and active, CHAPTER V. · ¶4209
• "Si blando nequeat superesse labori." CHAPTER V. · ¶4210
• But is it not great impudence to offer our imperfections and imbecilities, where we desire to please and leave a good opinion and esteem of ourselves? For the little that I am able to do now: CHAPTER V. · ¶4212
• I would not trouble a woman, that I am to reverence and fear: CHAPTER V. · ¶4215
• "Fuge suspicari, Cujus undenum trepidavit aetas Claudere lustrum." CHAPTER V. · ¶4216
• "Indum sanguineo veluti violaverit ostro Si quis ebur, vel mista rubent ubi lilia multa Alba rosa." CHAPTER V. · ¶4219
• Who can stay till the morning without dying for shame to behold the disdain of the fair eyes of her who knows so well his fumbling impertinence, CHAPTER V. · ¶4221
• "Et taciti fecere tamen convicia vultus," CHAPTER V. · ¶4222
• "Si non longa satis, si non bene mentula crassa Nimirum sapiunt, videntque parvam Matronae quoque mentulam illibenter:" CHAPTER V. · ¶4225
• and done me a most enormous injury. Every member I have, as much one as another, is equally my own, and no other more properly makes me a man than this. CHAPTER V. · ¶4227
• "Esse unum hominem accommodatum ad tantam morum ac sermonum et voluntatum varietatem," CHAPTER V. · ¶4229
• "Rimula, dispeream, ni monogramma tua est." CHAPTER V. · ¶4232
• "Un vit d'amy la contente et bien traicte:" CHAPTER V. · ¶4233
• But to proceed. Whence, too, can proceed that usurpation of sovereign authority you take upon you over the women, who favour you at their own expense, CHAPTER V. · ¶4236
• "Si furtiva dedit mira munuscula nocte," CHAPTER V. · ¶4237
• "Me tabula sacer Votiva paries, indicat uvida Suspendisse potenti Vestimenta maris deo:" CHAPTER V. · ¶4240
• 'tis now time to speak out. But as I might, per adventure, say to another, "Thou talkest idly, my friend; the love of thy time has little commerce with faith and integrity;" CHAPTER V. · ¶4242
• "Haec si tu postules Ratione certa facere, nihilo plus agas, Quam si des operam, ut cum ratione insanias:" CHAPTER V. · ¶4243
• "Dum nova canities, dum prima et recta senectus, Dum superest lachesi quod torqueat, et pedibus me Porto meis, nullo dextram subeunte bacillo," CHAPTER V. · ¶4249
• we have need to be solicited and tickled by some such nipping incitation as this. Do but observe what youth, vigour, and gaiety it inspired the good Anacreon withal: and Socrates, who was then older than I, speaking of an amorous object: CHAPTER V. · ¶4251

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