Essays — Michel de Montaigne

Essays

Michel de Montaigne · Licence: Public domain · Source

• "Cujus in indomito constantior inguine nervus, Quam nova collibus arbor inhaeret." CHAPTER V. · ¶4255
• To what end should we go insinuate our misery amid their gay and sprightly humour? CHAPTER V. · ¶4257
• "Possint ut juvenes visere fervidi. Multo non sine risu, Dilapsam in cineres facem." CHAPTER V. · ¶4258
• "Nolo Barbam vellere mortuo leoni." CHAPTER V. · ¶4261
• Xenophon lays it for an objection and an accusation against Menon, that he never made love to any but old women. For my part, I take more pleasure in but seeing the just and sweet mixture of two young beauties, or only in meditating on it in my fancy, than myself in acting second in a pitiful and imperfect conjunction; CHAPTER V. · ¶4263
• I leave that fantastic appetite to the Emperor Galba, who was only for old curried flesh: and to this poor wretch: CHAPTER V. · ¶4265
• "O ego Di faciant talem to cernere possim, Caraque mutatis oscula ferre comis, Amplectique meis corpus non pingue lacertis!" CHAPTER V. · ¶4266
• Ugliness of a confessed antiquity is to me less old and less ugly than another that is polished and plastered up. Shall I speak it, without the danger of having my throat cut? love, in my opinion, is not properly and naturally in its season, but in the age next to childhood, CHAPTER V. · ¶4270
• "Quem si puellarum insereres choro, Mille sagaces falleret hospites, Discrimen obscurum, solutis Crinibus ambiguoque vultu:" CHAPTER V. · ¶4271
• "Importunus enim transvolat aridas Quercus." CHAPTER V. · ¶4274
• "Nam si quando ad praelia ventum est, Ut quondam in stipulis magnus sine viribus ignis, Incassum furit:" CHAPTER V. · ¶4281
• the vices that are stifled in the thought are not the worst. CHAPTER V. · ¶4283
• To conclude this notable commentary, which has escaped from me in a torrent of babble, a torrent sometimes impetuous and hurtful, CHAPTER V. · ¶4284
• "Ut missum sponsi furtivo munere malum Procurrit casto virginis a gremio, Quod miserae oblitae molli sub veste locatuat, Dum adventu matris prosilit, excutitur, Atque illud prono praeceps agitur decursu Huic manat tristi conscius ore rubor." CHAPTER V. · ¶4285
• "Le fourgon se moque de la paele." ["The Pot and the Kettle."] CHAPTER V. · ¶4288
• Edited by William Carew Hazlitt CHAPTER V. · ¶4293
• VI. Of Coaches. VII. Of the Inconvenience of Greatness. VIII. Of the Art of Conference. CHAPTER V. · ¶4296
• "Namque unam dicere causam Non satis est, verum plures, unde una tamen sit." CHAPTER VI · ¶4299
• "Pejus vexabar, quam ut periculum mihi succurreret;" CHAPTER VI · ¶4303
• "Quo timoris minus est, eo minus ferme periculi est." CHAPTER VI · ¶4306
• "Quo in plures usus sis, minus in multos uti possis.... Quid autem est stultius, quam, quod libenter facias, curare ut id diutius facere non possis;" CHAPTER VI · ¶4320
• "Pecuniarum translatio a justis dominis ad alienos non debet liberalis videri." CHAPTER VI · ¶4327
• "Baltheus en! gemmis, en illita porticus auro:" CHAPTER VI · ¶4330
• all the sides of this vast space filled and environed, from the bottom to the top, with three or four score rows of seats, all of marble also, and covered with cushions: CHAPTER VI · ¶4332
• "Exeat, inquit, Si pudor est, et de pulvino surgat equestri, Cujus res legi non sufficit;" CHAPTER VI · ¶4333
• "Quamvis non modico caleant spectacula sole, Vela reducuntur, cum venit Hermogenes." CHAPTER VI · ¶4339
• The network also that was set before the people to defend them from the violence of these turned-out beasts was woven of gold: CHAPTER VI · ¶4341
• "Auro quoque torts refulgent Retia." CHAPTER VI · ¶4342
• "Vixere fortes ante Agamemnona Mufti, sed omnes illacrymabiles Urgentur, ignotique longs Nocte." CHAPTER VI · ¶4345
• "Et supra bellum Thebanum et funera Trojae Non alias alii quoque res cecinere poetae?" CHAPTER VI · ¶4347
• And the narrative of Solon, of what he had learned from the Egyptian priests, touching the long life of their state, and their manner of learning and preserving foreign histories, is not, methinks, a testimony to be refused in this consideration: CHAPTER VI · ¶4349
• "Si interminatam in omnes partes magnitudinem regionum videremus et temporum, in quam se injiciens animus et intendens, ita late longeque peregrinatur, ut nullam oram ultimi videat, in qua possit insistere: in haec immensitate . . . infinita vis innumerabilium appareret fomorum." CHAPTER VI · ¶4350
• "Jamque adeo est affecta aetas effoet aque tellus;" CHAPTER VI · ¶4353
• so did he vainly conclude as to its birth and youth, by the vigour he observed in the wits of his time, abounding in novelties and the invention of divers arts: CHAPTER VI · ¶4355
• "Verum, ut opinor, habet novitatem summa, recensque Natura est mundi, neque pridem exordia coepit Quare etiam quaedam nunc artes expoliuntur, Nunc etiam augescunt; nunc addita navigiis sunt Multa." CHAPTER VI · ¶4356

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