Essays — Michel de Montaigne

Essays

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• "Tantum ex publicis malis sentimus, quantum ad privatas res pertinet;" CHAPTER XII · ¶5048
• "Mista senum et juvenum densentur funera; nullum Saeva caput Proserpina fugit;" CHAPTER XII · ¶5052
• "Videas desertaque regna Pastorum, et longe saltus lateque vacantes." CHAPTER XII · ¶5055
• In this place my largest revenue is manual: what an hundred men ploughed for me, lay a long time fallow. CHAPTER XII · ¶5057
• "Exsilia, torments, bells, morbos, naufragia meditare . . . ut nullo sis malo tiro." CHAPTER XII · ¶5060
• What good will this curiosity do us, to anticipate all the inconveniences of human nature, and to prepare ourselves with so much trouble against things which, peradventure, will never befall us? CHAPTER XII · ¶5062
• "Parem passis tristitiam facit, pati posse;" CHAPTER XII · ¶5063
• "Curis acuens mortalia corda!" CHAPTER XII · ¶5066
• 'Twere pity that any part of their greatness should escape our sense and knowledge. CHAPTER XII · ¶5068
• 'Tis certain that for the most part the preparation for death has administered more torment than the thing itself. It was of old truly said, and by a very judicious author: CHAPTER XII · ¶5069
• "Minus afficit sensus fatigatio, quam cogitatio." CHAPTER XII · ¶5070
• "Incertam frustra, mortales, funeris horam, Quaeritis et qua sit mors aditura via.... Poena minor certam subito perferre ruinam; Quod timeas, gravius sustinuisse diu." CHAPTER XII · ¶5073
• "Tota philosophorum vita commentatio mortis est;" CHAPTER XII · ¶5076
• To judge of them by utility and by the naked truth, the lessons of simplicity are not much inferior to those which learning teaches us: nay, quite the contrary. Men differ in sentiment and force; we must lead them to their own good according to their capacities and by various ways: CHAPTER XII · ¶5079
• "Quo me comque rapit tempestas, deferor hospes." CHAPTER XII · ¶5080
• "Plus dolet quam necesse est, qui ante dolet, quam necesse est." CHAPTER XII · ¶5083
• We have no want of good masters, interpreters of natural simplicity. Socrates shall be one; for, as I remember, he speaks something to this purpose to the judges who sat upon his life and death. CHAPTER XII · ¶5086
• To what end should nature have begotten in us a hatred to it and a horror of it, considering that it is of so great utility to her in maintaining the succession and vicissitude of her works? and that in this universal republic, it conduces more to birth and augmentation than to loss or ruin? CHAPTER XII · ¶5091
• "Mille animas una necata dedit." CHAPTER XII · ¶5093
• "The failing of one life is the passage to a thousand other lives." CHAPTER XII · ¶5094
• "Ipsi animi magni refert, quali in corpore locati sint: multo enim a corpore existunt, qux acuant mentem: multa qua obtundant;" CHAPTER XII · ¶5102
• I have a favourable aspect, both in form and in interpretation: CHAPTER XII · ¶5109
• "Quid dixi, habere me? imo habui, Chreme." CHAPTER XII · ¶5110
• "Heu! tantum attriti corporis ossa vides;" CHAPTER XII · ¶5112
• "Tunc animis opus, AEnea, tunc pectore firmo." CHAPTER XII · ¶5116
• "Jam prece Pollucis, jam Castoris, implorata," CHAPTER XII · ¶5119
• "Ut magis peccari nolim, quam satis animi ad vindicanda peccata habeam." CHAPTER XII · ¶5123
• Edited by William Carew Hazlitt CHAPTER XII · ¶5130
• There is no desire more natural than that of knowledge. We try all ways that can lead us to it; where reason is wanting, we therein employ experience, CHAPTER XIII · ¶5135
• "Per varios usus artem experientia fecit, Exemplo monstrante viam," CHAPTER XIII · ¶5136
• "Ut olim flagitiis, sic nunc legibus, laboramus." CHAPTER XIII · ¶5141
• "Confusum est, quidquid usque in pulverem sectum est." CHAPTER XIII · ¶5146
• "Difficultatem facit doctrina." CHAPTER XIII · ¶5149
• Estienne de la Boetie; thus translated by Cotton: CHAPTER XIII · ¶5153
• "So in a running stream one wave we see After another roll incessantly, And as they glide, each does successively Pursue the other, each the other fly By this that's evermore pushed on, and this By that continually preceded is: The water still does into water swill, Still the same brook, but different water still." CHAPTER XIII · ¶5154
• "Quis deus hanc mundi temperet arte domum: Qua venit exoriens, qua deficit: unde coactis Cornibus in plenum menstrua luna redit Unde salo superant venti, quid flamine captet Eurus, et in nubes unde perennis aqua; Sit ventura dies mundi quae subruat arces...." CHAPTER XIII · ¶5166

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