Essays — Michel de Montaigne

Essays

Michel de Montaigne · الترخيص: Public domain · المصدر

• This is what my memory presents to me in gross, and with uncertainty enough; all judgments in gross are weak and imperfect. CHAPTER VIII · ¶4479
• Edited by William Carew Hazlitt CHAPTER VIII · ¶4484
• For my part, I have that worse custom, that if my slipper go awry, I let my shirt and my cloak do so too; I scorn to mend myself by halves. CHAPTER IX · ¶4494
• Amongst human conditions this is common enough: to be better pleased with foreign things than with our own, and to love innovation and change: CHAPTER IX · ¶4496
• "Ipsa dies ideo nos grato perluit haustu, Quod permutatis hora recurrit equis:" CHAPTER IX · ¶4497
• "Aut verberatae grandine vineae, Fundusque mendax, arbore nunc aquas Culpante, nunc torrentia agros Sidera, nunc hyemes iniquas." CHAPTER IX · ¶4501
• and that God scarce in six months sends a season wherein your bailiff can do his business as he should; but that if it serves the vines, it spoils the meadows: CHAPTER IX · ¶4503
• "Aut nimiis torret fervoribus aetherius sol, Aut subiti perimunt imbres, gelidoeque pruinae, Flabraque ventorum violento turbine vexant;" CHAPTER IX · ¶4504
• to which may be added the new and neat-made shoe of the man of old, that hurts your foot, CHAPTER IX · ¶4506
• and that a stranger does not understand how much it costs you, and what you contribute to maintain that show of order that is seen in your family, and that peradventure you buy too dear. CHAPTER IX · ¶4508
• "Non aestimatione census, verum victu atque cultu, terminantur pecunix modus." CHAPTER IX · ¶4510
• At all events, the damage occasioned by my absence seems not to deserve, so long as I am able to support it, that I should waive the occasions of diverting myself by that troublesome assistance. CHAPTER IX · ¶4514
• "Nemo enim resistit sibi, cum caeperit impelli," CHAPTER IX · ¶4518
• for the most trivial cause imaginable, I irritate that humour, which afterwards nourishes and exasperates itself of its own motion; attracting and heaping up matter upon matter whereon to feed: CHAPTER IX · ¶4520
• "Stillicidi casus lapidem cavat:" CHAPTER IX · ¶4521
• "Tum vero in curas animum diducimus omnes;" CHAPTER IX · ¶4524
• "Quin to aliquid saltem potius, quorum indiget usus, Viminibus mollique paras detexere junco." CHAPTER IX · ¶4528
• "Sit meae sedes utinam senectae, Sit modus lasso maris, et viarum, Militiaeque." CHAPTER IX · ¶4531
• "Fructus enim ingenii et virtutis, omnisque praestantiae, tum maximus capitur, quum in proximum quemque confertur:" CHAPTER IX · ¶4534
• He who has the charge of my purse in his travels, has it purely and without control; he could cheat me thoroughly, if he came to reckoning; and, if he is not a devil, I oblige him to deal faithfully with me by so entire a trust: CHAPTER IX · ¶4538
• "Multi fallere do cuerunt, dum timent falli; et aliis jus peccandi suspicando fecerunt." CHAPTER IX · ¶4539
• "Servitus obedientia est fracti animi et abjecti, arbitrio carentis suo." CHAPTER IX · ¶4543
• Crates did worse, who threw himself into the liberty of poverty, only to rid himself of the inconveniences and cares of his house. This is what I would not do; I hate poverty equally with pain; but I could be content to change the kind of life I live for another that was humbler and less chargeable. CHAPTER IX · ¶4545
• "Et cantharus et lanx Ostendunt mihi me"-- CHAPTER IX · ¶4550
• The other cause that tempts me out to these journeys is, inaptitude for the present manners in our state. I could easily console myself for this corruption in regard to the public interest: CHAPTER IX · ¶4554
• "Pejoraque saecula ferri Temporibus, quorum sceleri non invenit ipsa Nomen, et a nullo posuit natura metallo;" CHAPTER IX · ¶4555
• but not to my own. I am, in particular, too much oppressed by them: for, in my neighbourhood, we are, of late, by the long licence of our civil wars, grown old in so riotous a form of state, CHAPTER IX · ¶4557
• "Quippe ubi fas versum atque nefas," CHAPTER IX · ¶4558
• that in earnest, 'tis a wonder how it can subsist: CHAPTER IX · ¶4560
• "Armati terram exercent, semperque recentes Convectare juvat praedas; et vivere rapto." CHAPTER IX · ¶4561
• "Ayme l'estat, tel que to le veois estre S'il est royal ayme la royaute; S'il est de peu, ou biers communaute, Ayme l'aussi; car Dieu t'y a faict naistre." CHAPTER IX · ¶4566
• "Non tam commutandarum quam evertendarum rerum cupidi." CHAPTER IX · ¶4570
• Seeing how miserably we are agitated (for what have we not done!) CHAPTER IX · ¶4574
• "Eheu! cicatricum, et sceleris pudet, Fratrumque: quid nos dura refugimus AEtas? quid intactum nefasti Liquimus? Unde manus inventus Metu Deorum continuit? quibus Pepercit aris." CHAPTER IX · ¶4575
• "Ipsa si velit Salus, Servare prorsus non potest hanc familiam;" CHAPTER IX · ¶4578
• "Enimvero Dii nos homines quasi pilas habent." CHAPTER IX · ¶4581
• "Nec gentibus ullis Commodat in populum, terra pelagique potentem, Invidiam fortuna suam." CHAPTER IX · ¶4583
• Everything that totters does not fall. The contexture of so great a body holds by more nails than one; it holds even by its antiquity, like old buildings, from which the foundations are worn away by time, without rough-cast or mortar, which yet live and support themselves by their own weight: CHAPTER IX · ¶4585
• "Nec jam validis radicibus haerens, Pondere tuta suo est." CHAPTER IX · ¶4586
• "Et sua sunt illis incommoda; parque per omnes Tempestas." CHAPTER IX · ¶4588

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