Essays — Michel de Montaigne

Essays

Michel de Montaigne · רישיון: Public domain · מקור

• "Sanitatis patrocinium est, insanientium turba." CHAPTER XI · ¶4939
• "Miramur ex intervallo fallentia." CHAPTER XI · ¶4943
• So does our sight often represent to us strange images at a distance that vanish on approaching near: CHAPTER XI · ¶4945
• "Nunquam ad liquidum fama perducitur." CHAPTER XI · ¶4946
• Iris is the daughter of Thaumas; CHAPTER XI · ¶4951
• I am plain and heavy, and stick to the solid and the probable, avoiding those ancient reproaches: CHAPTER XI · ¶4957
• "Majorem fidem homines adhibent iis, quae non intelligunt; --Cupidine humani ingenii libentius obscura creduntur." CHAPTER XI · ¶4958
• "Videantur sane, non affirmentur modo;" CHAPTER XI · ¶4961
• but in the real consequence they draw from it these have much the advantage. To kill men, a clear and strong light is required, and our life is too real and essential to warrant these supernatural and fantastic accidents. CHAPTER XI · ¶4963
• "Captisque res magis mentibus, quam consceleratis similis visa;" CHAPTER XI · ¶4966
• "Nec me pudet, ut istos fateri nescire, quod nesciam;" CHAPTER XI · ¶4970
• "Seu plures calor ille vias et caeca relaxat Spiramenta, novas veniat qua succus in herbas Seu durat magis, et venas astringit hiantes; Ne tenues pluviae, rapidive potentia colic Acrior, aut Boreae penetrabile frigus adurat." CHAPTER XI · ¶4977
• "Ogni medaglia ha il suo rovescio." CHAPTER XI · ¶4979
• "Servare modum, finemque tenere, Naturamque sequi." CHAPTER XII · ¶4984
• "Ut omnium rerum, sic litterarum quoque, intemperantia laboramus." CHAPTER XII · ¶4989
• And Tacitus had reason to commend the mother of Agricola for having restrained her son in his too violent appetite for learning. CHAPTER XII · ¶4991
• "Paucis opus est literis ad mentem bonam:" CHAPTER XII · ¶4993
• "Quae magis gustata quam potata, delectant," CHAPTER XII · ¶4996
• everything that pleases does not nourish: CHAPTER XII · ¶4998
• "Ubi non ingenii, sed animi negotium agitur." CHAPTER XII · ¶4999
• "Magnus animus remissius loquitur, et securius . . . non est alius ingenio, alius ammo color;" CHAPTER XII · ¶5002
• "Simplex illa et aperta virtus in obscuram et solertem scientiam versa est." CHAPTER XII · ¶5006
• I was writing this about the time when a great load of our intestine troubles for several months lay with all its weight upon me; I had the enemy at my door on one side, and the freebooters, worse enemies, on the other, CHAPTER XII · ¶5008
• "Non armis, sed vitiis, certatur;" CHAPTER XII · ¶5009
• and underwent all sorts of military injuries at once: CHAPTER XII · ¶5011
• "Hostis adest dextra laevaque a parte timendus. Vicinoque malo terret utrumque latus." CHAPTER XII · ¶5012
• "Nostre mal s'empoisonne Du secours qu'on luy donne." CHAPTER XII · ¶5015
• "Exuperat magis, aegrescitque medendo." CHAPTER XII · ¶5016
• "Omnia fanda, nefanda, malo permista furore, Justificam nobis mentem avertere deorum." CHAPTER XII · ¶5018
• "Hunc saltem everso juvenem succurrere seclo, Ne prohibete." CHAPTER XII · ¶5021
• "Nihil in speciem fallacius, quam prava religio, ubi deorum numen prxtenditur sceleribus." CHAPTER XII · ¶5025
• The extremest sort of injustice, according to Plato, is where that which is unjust should be reputed for just. CHAPTER XII · ¶5027
• The common people then suffered very much, and not present damage only: CHAPTER XII · ¶5028
• "Undique totis Usque adeo turbatur agris," CHAPTER XII · ¶5029
• but future too; the living were to suffer, and so were they who were yet unborn; they stript them, and consequently myself, even of hope, taking from them all they had laid up in store to live on for many years: CHAPTER XII · ¶5031
• "Quae nequeunt secum ferre aut abducere, perdunt; Et cremat insontes turba scelesta casas . . . Muris nulla fides, squalent populatibus agri." CHAPTER XII · ¶5032
• Besides this shock, I suffered others: I underwent the inconveniences that moderation brings along with it in such a disease: I was robbed on all hands; to the Ghibelline I was a Guelph, and to the Guelph a Ghibelline; one of my poets expresses this very well, but I know not where it is. CHAPTER XII · ¶5034
• "Perspicuitas enim argumentatione elevatur;" CHAPTER XII · ¶5037
• "Si mihi, quod nunc est, etiam minus; et mihi vivam Quod superest aevi, si quid superesse volent dii:" CHAPTER XII · ¶5040
• "Potentissimus est, qui se habet in potestate." CHAPTER XII · ¶5044

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