Essays — Michel de Montaigne

Essays

Michel de Montaigne · רישיון: Public domain · מקור

• "Non ipse pro caris amicis Aut patria, timidus perire:" CHAPTER X · ¶4822
• "Male cuncta ministrat Impetus." CHAPTER X · ¶4825
• "Ipsa se velocitas implicat."--Seneca, Ep. 44 CHAPTER X · ¶4828
• For example, according to what I commonly see, avarice has no greater impediment than itself; the more bent and vigorous it is, the less it rakes together, and commonly sooner grows rich when disguised in a visor of liberality. CHAPTER X · ¶4829
• "Nam si, quod satis est homini, id satis esse potesset Hoc sat erat: nunc, quum hoc non est, qui credimus porro Divitias ullas animum mi explere potesse?" CHAPTER X · ¶4833
• "Sufficit ad id natura, quod poscit." CHAPTER X · ¶4836
• Cleanthes lived by the labour of his own hands, and boasted that Cleanthes, if he would, could yet maintain another Cleanthes. CHAPTER X · ¶4838
• "Quo mihi fortunas, si non conceditur uti?" CHAPTER X · ¶4840
• Most of our business is farce: CHAPTER X · ¶4846
• "Mundus universus exercet histrioniam." --[Petronius Arbiter, iii. 8.] CHAPTER X · ¶4847
• "Tantum se fortunx permittunt, etiam ut naturam dediscant." CHAPTER X · ¶4849
• "Neque extra necessitates belli praecipuum odium gero;" CHAPTER X · ¶4853
• "Non tam omnia universi, quam ea, quae ad quemque pertinent, singuli carpebant." CHAPTER X · ¶4856
• "Melius non incipient, quam desinent." CHAPTER X · ¶4863
• The surest way, therefore, is to prepare one's self beforehand for occasions. CHAPTER X · ¶4865
• I know very well that some wise men have taken another way, and have not feared to grapple and engage to the utmost upon several subjects these are confident of their own strength, under which they protect themselves in all ill successes, making their patience wrestle and contend with disaster: CHAPTER X · ¶4866
• "Velut rupes, vastum quae prodit in aequor, Obvia ventorum furiis, expostaque ponto, Vim cunctam atque minas perfert coelique marisque; Ipsa immota manens." CHAPTER X · ¶4867
• "Ne nos inducas in tentationem." CHAPTER X · ¶4870
• "In tam diversa magister Ventus et unda trahunt." CHAPTER X · ¶4874
• "Etenim ipsae se impellunt, ubi semel a ratione discessum est; ipsaque sibi imbecillitas indulget, in altumque provehitur imprudens, nec reperit locum consistendi." CHAPTER X · ¶4876
• I am betimes sensible of the little breezes that begin to sing and whistle within, forerunners of the storm: CHAPTER X · ¶4878
• "Ceu flamina prima Cum deprensa fremunt sylvis et caeca volutant Murmura, venturos nautis prodentia ventos." CHAPTER X · ¶4879
• How often have I done myself a manifest injustice to avoid the hazard of having yet a worse done me by the judges, after an age of vexations, dirty and vile practices, more enemies to my nature than fire or the rack? CHAPTER X · ¶4881
• "Convenit a litibus, quantum licet, et nescio an paulo plus etiam quam licet, abhorrentem esse: est enim non modo liberale, paululum nonnunquam de suo jure decedere, sed interdum etiam fructuosum." CHAPTER X · ¶4882
• The poets very well understood this when they put all Greece and Asia to fire and sword about an apple. Look why that man hazards his life and honour upon the fortune of his rapier and dagger; let him acquaint you with the occasion of the quarrel; he cannot do it without blushing: the occasion is so idle and frivolous. CHAPTER X · ¶4886
• "Exscinduntur facilius ammo, quam temperantur." CHAPTER X · ¶4890
• "Felix, qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas, Atque metus omnes et inexorabile fatum Subjecit pedibus, strepitumque Acherontis avari! Fortunatus et ille, Deos qui novit agrestes, Panaque, Sylvanumque senem, Nymphasque sorores!" CHAPTER X · ¶4893
• "Jure perhorrui Lath conspicuum tollere verticem." CHAPTER X · ¶4896
• "Cum semper natura, tum etiam aetate jam quietus;" CHAPTER X · ¶4899
• "Neque submissam et abjectam, neque se efferentem;" CHAPTER X · ¶4902
• my fortune will have it so. I am descended from a family that has lived without lustre or tumult, and, time out of mind, particularly ambitious of a character for probity. CHAPTER X · ¶4904
• "Non nobis, domine, non nobis, sed nomini tuo da gloriam." CHAPTER X · ¶4906
• He who gets it of nobody else, let him pay himself out of his own purse. CHAPTER X · ¶4908
• "Quae est ista laus quae: possit e macello peti?" CHAPTER X · ¶4910
• "Mihi quidem laudabiliora videntur omnia, quae sine venditatione, et sine populo teste fiunt," CHAPTER X · ¶4913
• says the most ostentatious man that ever lived. CHAPTER X · ¶4915
• "Mene huic confidere monstro! Mene salis placidi vultum, fluctusque quietos Ignorare?" CHAPTER X · ¶4919
• "Ita finitima sunt falsa veris, ut in praecipitem locum non debeat se sapiens committere." CHAPTER XI · ¶4927
• "Insita hominibus libido alendi de industria rumores," CHAPTER XI · ¶4933
• "Quasi vero quidquam sit tam valde, quam nil sapere, vulgare." CHAPTER XI · ¶4937

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