Essays — Michel de Montaigne

Essays

Michel de Montaigne · Licencia: Public domain · Fuente

• "Deus haec fortasse benigna Reducet in sedem vice." CHAPTER IX · ¶4591
• My memory grows cruelly worse every day: CHAPTER IX · ¶4595
• "Pocula Lethaeos ut si ducentia somnos, Arente fauce traxerim;" CHAPTER IX · ¶4596
• "Nihil est his, qui placere volunt, turn adversarium, quam expectatio." CHAPTER IX · ¶4600
• "Simpliciora militares decent." CHAPTER IX · ¶4603
• "Hoc ipsum ita justum est, quod recte fit, si est voluntarium." CHAPTER IX · ¶4612
• If the action has not some splendour of liberty, it has neither grace nor honour: CHAPTER IX · ¶4614
• "Quod vos jus cogit, vix voluntate impetrent:" CHAPTER IX · ¶4615
• where necessity draws me, I love to let my will take its own course: CHAPTER IX · ¶4617
• "Quia quicquid imperio cogitur, exigenti magis, quam praestanti, acceptum refertur." CHAPTER IX · ¶4618
• I know some who follow this rule, even to injustice; who will sooner give than restore, sooner lend than pay, and will do them the least good to whom they are most obliged. I don't go so far as that, but I'm not far off. CHAPTER IX · ¶4620
• "Est prudentis sustinere, ut currum, sic impetum benevolentia;" CHAPTER IX · ¶4622
• "Nec sunt mihi nota potentum Munera." CHAPTER IX · ¶4626
• 'Tis what every one may do in himself, but more easily they whom God has placed in a condition exempt from natural and urgent necessities. It is a wretched and dangerous thing to depend upon others; we ourselves, in whom is ever the most just and safest dependence, are not sufficiently sure. CHAPTER IX · ¶4631
• I have a thousand times gone to bed in my own house with an apprehension that I should be betrayed and murdered that very night; compounding with fortune, that it might be without terror and with quick despatch; and, after my Paternoster, I have cried out, CHAPTER IX · ¶4633
• "Impius haec tam culta novalia miles habebit!" CHAPTER IX · ¶4634
• "Quam miserum, porta vitam muroque tueri, Vixque suae tutum viribus esse domus!" CHAPTER IX · ¶4637
• 'Tis a grievous extremity for a man to be jostled even in his own house and domestic repose. The country where I live is always the first in arms and the last that lays them down, and where there is never an absolute peace: CHAPTER IX · ¶4639
• "Tunc quoque, cum pax est, trepidant formidine belli.... Quoties Romam fortuna lacessit; Hac iter est bellis.... Melius, Fortuna, dedisses Orbe sub Eco sedem, gelidaque sub Arcto, Errantesque domos." CHAPTER IX · ¶4640
• secondly, that it is always gain to change an ill condition for one that is uncertain; and that the ills of others ought not to afflict us so much as our own. CHAPTER IX · ¶4646
• "Vires ultra sorternque senectae." CHAPTER IX · ¶4650
• "Ante oculos errat domus, errat forma locorum." CHAPTER IX · ¶4656
• "Excludat jurgia finis . . . . Utor permisso; caudaeque pilos ut equinae Paulatim vello, et demo unum, demo etiam unum Dum cadat elusus ratione ruentis acervi:" CHAPTER IX · ¶4659
• "Rerum natura nullam nobis dedit cognitionem finium." CHAPTER IX · ¶4662
• "Uxor, si cesses, aut to amare cogitat, Aut tete amari, aut potare, aut animo obsequi; Et tibi bene esse soli, cum sibi sit male;" CHAPTER IX · ¶4665
• or may it not be, that of itself opposition and contradiction entertain and nourish them, and that they sufficiently accommodate themselves, provided they incommodate you? CHAPTER IX · ¶4667
• "Excutienda damus praecordia." CHAPTER IX · ¶4675
• "Verum animo satis haec vestigia parva sagaci Sunt, per quae possis cognoscere caetera tute" CHAPTER IX · ¶4681
• "Vitam regit fortuna, non sapientia?" CHAPTER IX · ¶4685
• In this conveniency of lodging that I desire, I mix nothing of pomp and amplitude--I hate it rather; but a certain plain neatness, which is oftenest found in places where there is less of art, and that Nature has adorned with some grace that is all her own: CHAPTER IX · ¶4688
• "Non ampliter, sea munditer convivium." CHAPTER IX · ¶4689
• "Si cum hac exceptione detur sapientia, ut illam inclusam teneam, nec enuntiem, rejiciam." CHAPTER IX · ¶4696
• This other has strained it one note higher: CHAPTER IX · ¶4698
• "Si contigerit ea vita sapienti, ut ommum rerum afliuentibus copiis, quamvis omnia, quae cognitione digna sunt, summo otio secum ipse consideret et contempletur, tamen, si solitudo tanta sit, ut hominem videre non possit, excedat a vita." CHAPTER IX · ¶4699
• Architas pleases me when he says, "that it would be unpleasant, even in heaven itself, to wander in those great and divine celestial bodies without a companion. But yet 'tis much better to be alone than in foolish and troublesome company. Aristippus loved to live as a stranger in all places: CHAPTER IX · ¶4701
• "Me si fata meis paterentur ducere vitam Auspiciis," CHAPTER IX · ¶4702
• I should choose to pass away the greatest part of my life on horseback: CHAPTER IX · ¶4704
• "Visere gestiens, Qua pane debacchentur ignes, Qua nebula, pluviique rores." CHAPTER IX · ¶4705
• "Qua to nunc coquat, et vexet sub pectore fixa." CHAPTER IX · ¶4708

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