Essays — Michel de Montaigne

Essays

Michel de Montaigne · License: Public domain · Source

• "Where do you think to live without disturbance?" CHAPTER IX · ¶4710
• "Nunquam simpliciter Fortuna indulget." CHAPTER IX · ¶4711
• "Nulla placida quies est, nisi quam ratio composuit." CHAPTER IX · ¶4714
• "Alter remus aquas, alter mihi radat arenas;" CHAPTER IX · ¶4717
• one cord will never hold me fast enough. You will say, there is vanity in this way of living. But where is there not? All these fine precepts are vanity, and all wisdom is vanity: CHAPTER IX · ¶4719
• "Dominus novit cogitationes sapientum, quoniam vanae sunt." CHAPTER IX · ¶4720
• These exquisite subtleties are only fit for sermons; they are discourses that will send us all saddled into the other world. Life is a material and corporal motion, an action imperfect and irregular of its own proper essence; I make it my business to serve it according to itself: CHAPTER IX · ¶4722
• "Sic est faciendum, ut contra naturam universam nihil contendamus; ea tamen conservata propriam sequamur." CHAPTER IX · ¶4725
• To what end are these elevated points of philosophy, upon which no human being can rely? and those rules that exceed both our use and force? CHAPTER IX · ¶4727
• "Curentur dubii medicis majoribus aegri." CHAPTER IX · ¶4729
• "Nemo satis credit tantum delinquere, quantum Permittas." CHAPTER IX · ¶4732
• "Ole, quid ad te De cute quid faciat ille vel ille sua?" CHAPTER IX · ¶4735
• "Exeat aula, Qui vult esse pius." CHAPTER IX · ¶4739
• "At tu, Catulle, obstinatus obdura." CHAPTER IX · ¶4742
• "Egregium sanctumque virum si cerno, bimembri Hoc monstrum puero, et miranti jam sub aratro Piscibus inventis, et foetae comparo mulae." CHAPTER IX · ¶4748
• "Nihil est tam utile, quod intransitu prosit." CHAPTER IX · ¶4754
• "Tanta vis admonitionis inest in locis....Et id quidem in hac urbe infinitum; quacumque enim ingredimur, in aliquam historiam vestigium ponimus." CHAPTER IX · ¶4758
• It pleases me to consider their face, bearing, and vestments: I pronounce those great names betwixt my teeth, and make them ring in my ears: CHAPTER IX · ¶4760
• "Ego illos veneror, et tantis nominibus semper assurgo." CHAPTER IX · ¶4761
• "Laudandis pretiosior ruinis." CHAPTER IX · ¶4765
• she yet in her very tomb retains the marks and images of empire: CHAPTER IX · ¶4767
• "Ut palam sit, uno in loco gaudentis opus esse naturx." CHAPTER IX · ¶4768
• Some would blame and be angry at themselves to perceive themselves tickled with so vain a pleasure our humours are never too vain that are pleasant let them be what they may, if they constantly content a man of common understanding, I could not have the heart to blame him. CHAPTER IX · ¶4770
• I am very much obliged to Fortune, in that, to this very hour, she has offered me no outrage beyond what I was well able to bear. Is it not her custom to let those live in quiet by whom she is not importuned? CHAPTER IX · ¶4771
• "Quanto quisque sibi plum negaverit, A diis plum feret: nil cupientium Nudus castra peto . . . . Multa petentibus Desunt multa." CHAPTER IX · ¶4772
• If she continue her favour, she will dismiss me very well satisfied: CHAPTER IX · ¶4774
• But beware a shock: there are a thousand who perish in the port. I easily comfort myself for what shall here happen when I shall be gone, present things trouble me enough: CHAPTER IX · ¶4777
• "Bona jam nec nasci licet, ita corrupta Bunt semina;" CHAPTER IX · ¶4781
• and yet they are justly to be lamented by such as lose them when they have them. CHAPTER IX · ¶4783
• He who left me my house in charge, foretold that I was like to ruin it, considering my humour so little inclined to look after household affairs. But he was mistaken; for I am in the same condition now as when I first entered into it, or rather somewhat better; and yet without office or any place of profit. CHAPTER IX · ¶4784
• Edited by William Carew Hazlitt CHAPTER IX · ¶4793
• X. Of Managing the Will. XI. Of Cripples. XII. Of Physiognomy. CHAPTER IX · ¶4796
• "Fugax rerum, securaque in otia natus." CHAPTER X · ¶4799
• "In negotiis sunt, negotii cause," CHAPTER X · ¶4803
• "Incedis per ignes, Suppositos cineri doloso." CHAPTER X · ¶4806
• "Uterque bonus pacis bellique minister." CHAPTER X · ¶4809
• "Imperiti enim judicant, et qui frequenter in hoc ipsum fallendi sunt, ne errent." CHAPTER X · ¶4814
• When they order us to love three, four, or fifty degrees of things above ourselves, they do like archers, who, to hit the white, take their aim a great deal higher than the butt; to make a crooked stick straight, we bend it the contrary way. CHAPTER X · ¶4816
• "Qui sibi amicus est, scito hunc amicum omnibus esse." CHAPTER X · ¶4818
• I would not that men should refuse, in the employments they take upon them, their attention, pains, eloquence, sweat, and blood if need be: CHAPTER X · ¶4821

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