Essays — Michel de Montaigne

Essays

Michel de Montaigne · الترخيص: Public domain · المصدر

• Let an honest curiosity be suggested to his fancy of being inquisitive after everything; whatever there is singular and rare near the place where he is, let him go and see it; a fine house, a noble fountain, an eminent man, the place where a battle has been anciently fought, the passages of Caesar and Charlemagne: CHAPTER XXV · ¶823
• "Qux tellus sit lenta gelu, quae putris ab aestu, Ventus in Italiam quis bene vela ferat." CHAPTER XXV · ¶824
• Let him inquire into the manners, revenues, and alliances of princes, things in themselves very pleasant to learn, and very useful to know. CHAPTER XXV · ¶826
• To examples may fitly be applied all the profitable discourses of philosophy, to which all human actions, as to their best rule, ought to be especially directed: a scholar shall be taught to know-- CHAPTER XXV · ¶830
• "Quid fas optare: quid asper Utile nummus habet: patrix carisque propinquis Quantum elargiri deceat: quern te Deus esse Jussit, et humana qua parte locatus es in re; Quid sumus, et quidnam victuri gignimur." CHAPTER XXV · ¶831
• "Et quo quemque modo fugiatque feratque laborem." CHAPTER XXV · ¶834
• "Sapere aude; Incipe; Qui recte vivendi prorogat horam, Rusticus exspectat, dum defluat amnis; at ille Labitur, et labetur in omne volubilis oevum." CHAPTER XXV · ¶837
• 'Tis a great foolery to teach our children: CHAPTER XXV · ¶839
• "Quid moveant Pisces, animosaque signa Leonis, Lotus et Hesperia quid Capricornus aqua," CHAPTER XXV · ¶840
• the knowledge of the stars and the motion of the eighth sphere before their own: CHAPTER XXV · ¶842
• "Deprendas animi tormenta latentis in aegro Corpore; deprendas et gaudia; sumit utrumque Inde habitum facies." CHAPTER XXV · ¶847
• Since philosophy is that which instructs us to live, and that infancy has there its lessons as well as other ages, why is it not communicated to children betimes? CHAPTER XXV · ¶853
• "Udum et molle lutum est; nunc, nunc properandus, et acri Fingendus sine fine rota." CHAPTER XXV · ¶854
• "Petite hinc, juvenesque senesque, Finem ammo certum, miserisque viatica canis." CHAPTER XXV · ¶858
• "Aeque pauperibus prodest, locupletibus aeque; Et, neglecta, aeque pueris senibusque nocebit." CHAPTER XXV · ¶863
• "Multum interest, utrum peccare ali quis nolit, an nesciat." CHAPTER XXV · ¶868
• "Omnis Aristippum decuit color, et status, et res." CHAPTER XXV · ¶871
• I would have my pupil to be such an one, CHAPTER XXV · ¶873
• "Quem duplici panno patentia velat, Mirabor, vitae via si conversa decebit, Personamque feret non inconcinnus utramque." CHAPTER XXV · ¶874
• These are my lessons, and he who puts them in practice shall reap more advantage than he who has had them read to him only, and so only knows them. If you see him, you hear him; if you hear him, you see him. God forbid, says one in Plato, that to philosophise were only to read a great many books, and to learn the arts. CHAPTER XXV · ¶876
• "Hanc amplissimam omnium artium bene vivendi disciplinam, vita magis quam literis, persequuti sunt." CHAPTER XXV · ¶877
• "Qui disciplinam suam non ostentationem scientiae, sed legem vitae putet: quique obtemperet ipse sibi, et decretis pareat." CHAPTER XXV · ¶881
• "Verbaque praevisam rem non invita sequentur;" CHAPTER XXV · ¶885
• And as another as poetically says in his prose: CHAPTER XXV · ¶887
• "Quum res animum occupavere, verbs ambiunt," CHAPTER XXV · ¶888
• "Emunctae naris, durus componere versus." CHAPTER XXV · ¶894
• Let a man, says Horace, divest his work of all method and measure, CHAPTER XXV · ¶896
• "Tempora certa modosque, et, quod prius ordine verbum est, Posterius facias, praeponens ultima primis Invenias etiam disjecti membra poetae." CHAPTER XXV · ¶897
• For the vulgar, there were never so many poetasters as now; but though they find it no hard matter to imitate their rhyme, they yet fall infinitely short of imitating the rich descriptions of the one, and the delicate invention of the other of these masters. CHAPTER XXV · ¶902
• "Contorta et aculeata sophismata," CHAPTER XXV · ¶904
• as Cicero calls them, are designed to possess him with an untruth, they are dangerous; but if they signify no more than only to make him laugh, I do not see why a man need to be fortified against them. There are some so ridiculous, as to go a mile out of their way to hook in a fine word: CHAPTER XXV · ¶905
• "Aut qui non verba rebus aptant, sed res extrinsecus arcessunt, quibus verba conveniant." CHAPTER XXV · ¶906
• "Qui, alicujus verbi decore placentis, vocentur ad id, quod non proposuerant scribere." CHAPTER XXV · ¶909
• "Haec demum sapiet dictio, qux feriet;" CHAPTER XXV · ¶912
• "Quae veritati operam dat oratio, incomposita sit et simplex." CHAPTER XXV · ¶915
• "Quis accurat loquitur, nisi qui vult putide loqui?" CHAPTER XXV · ¶917
• "Alter ab undecimo tum me vix ceperat annus," CHAPTER XXV · ¶924
• "Aristoni tragico actori rem aperit: huic et genus et fortuna honesta erant: nec ars, quia nihil tale apud Graecos pudori est, ea deformabat." CHAPTER XXV · ¶927
• To return to my subject, there is nothing like alluring the appetite and affections; otherwise you make nothing but so many asses laden with books; by dint of the lash, you give them their pocketful of learning to keep; whereas, to do well you should not only lodge it with them, but make them espouse it. CHAPTER XXV · ¶930
• THAT IT IS FOLLY TO MEASURE TRUTH AND ERROR BY OUR OWN CAPACITY CHAPTER XXVI · ¶931

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