Essays — Michel de Montaigne

Essays

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• 'Tis not, perhaps, without reason, that we attribute facility of belief and easiness of persuasion to simplicity and ignorance: for I fancy I have heard belief compared to the impression of a seal upon the soul, which by how much softer and of less resistance it is, is the more easy to be impressed upon. CHAPTER XXVI · ¶932
• "Ut necesse est, lancem in Libra, ponderibus impositis, deprimi, sic animum perspicuis cedere." CHAPTER XXVI · ¶933
• "Somnia, terrores magicos, miracula, sagas, Nocturnos lemures, portentaque Thessala," CHAPTER XXVI · ¶936
• "Jam nemo, fessus saturusque videndi, Suspicere in coeli dignatur lucida templa;" CHAPTER XXVI · ¶939
• and that if those things were now newly presented to us, we should think them as incredible, if not more, than any others. CHAPTER XXVI · ¶941
• "Si nunc primum mortalibus adsint Ex improviso, si sint objecta repente, Nil magis his rebus poterat mirabile dici, Aute minus ante quod auderent fore credere gentes." CHAPTER XXVI · ¶942
• He that had never seen a river, imagined the first he met with to be the sea; and the greatest things that have fallen within our knowledge, we conclude the extremes that nature makes of the kind. CHAPTER XXVI · ¶944
• "Scilicet et fluvius qui non est maximus, ei'st Qui non ante aliquem majorem vidit; et ingens Arbor, homoque videtur, et omnia de genere omni Maxima quae vidit quisque, haec ingentia fingit." CHAPTER XXVI · ¶945
• "Consuetudine oculorum assuescunt animi, neque admirantur, neque requirunt rationes earum rerum, quas semper vident." CHAPTER XXVI · ¶947
• "Qui, ut rationem nullam afferrent, ipsa auctoritate me frangerent." CHAPTER XXVI · ¶951
• Edited by William Carew Hazlitt CHAPTER XXVI · ¶958
• "Desinit in piscem mulier formosa superne." CHAPTER XXVII · ¶964
• "Et ipse Notus in fratres animi paterni." CHAPTER XXVII · ¶969
• We are not here to bring the love we bear to women, though it be an act of our own choice, into comparison, nor rank it with the others. The fire of this, I confess, CHAPTER XXVII · ¶971
• "Neque enim est dea nescia nostri Qux dulcem curis miscet amaritiem," CHAPTER XXVII · ¶972
• "Come segue la lepre il cacciatore Al freddo, al caldo, alla montagna, al lito; Ne piu l'estima poi the presa vede; E sol dietro a chi fugge affretta il piede" CHAPTER XXVII · ¶975
• That other Grecian licence is justly abhorred by our manners, which also, from having, according to their practice, a so necessary disparity of age and difference of offices betwixt the lovers, answered no more to the perfect union and harmony that we here require than the other: CHAPTER XXVII · ¶979
• "Quis est enim iste amor amicitiae? cur neque deformem adolescentem quisquam amat, neque formosum senem?" CHAPTER XXVII · ¶980
• "Amorem conatum esse amicitiae faciendae ex pulchritudinis specie." CHAPTER XXVII · ¶983
• I return to my own more just and true description: CHAPTER XXVII · ¶985
• "Omnino amicitiae, corroboratis jam confirmatisque, et ingeniis, et aetatibus, judicandae sunt." CHAPTER XXVII · ¶986
• "Mihi sic usus est: tibi, ut opus est facto, face." CHAPTER XXVII · ¶994
• "Nil ego contulerim jucundo sanus amico." CHAPTER XXVII · ¶997
• "Quern semper acerbum, Semper honoratum (sic, di, voluistis) habebo," CHAPTER XXVII · ¶1000
• I have only led a languishing life; and the very pleasures that present themselves to me, instead of administering anything of consolation, double my affliction for his loss. We were halves throughout, and to that degree, that methinks, by outliving him, I defraud him of his part. CHAPTER XXVII · ¶1002
• "Nec fas esse ulla me voluptate hic frui Decrevi, tantisper dum ille abest meus particeps." CHAPTER XXVII · ¶1003
• I was so grown and accustomed to be always his double in all places and in all things, that methinks I am no more than half of myself: CHAPTER XXVII · ¶1005
• "Illam meae si partem anima tulit Maturior vis, quid moror altera? Nec carus aeque, nec superstes Integer? Ille dies utramque Duxit ruinam." CHAPTER XXVII · ¶1006
• There is no action or imagination of mine wherein I do not miss him; as I know that he would have missed me: for as he surpassed me by infinite degrees in virtue and all other accomplishments, so he also did in the duties of friendship: CHAPTER XXVII · ¶1010
• "Quis desiderio sit pudor, aut modus Tam cari capitis?" CHAPTER XXVII · ¶1011
• But let us hear a boy of sixteen speak: CHAPTER XXVII · ¶1015
• "Insani sapiens nomen ferat, aequus iniqui, Ultra quam satis est, virtutem si petat ipsam." CHAPTER XXIX. · ¶1024
• This is a subtle consideration of philosophy. A man may both be too much in love with virtue, and be excessive in a just action. Holy Writ agrees with this, Be not wiser than you should, but be soberly wise.--[St. Paul, Epistle to the Romans, xii. 3.]--I have known a great man, CHAPTER XXIX. · ¶1027
• --[Coste translates this: "on the part of philosophy and theology," observing that but few wives would think themselves obliged to Montaigne for any such lesson to their husbands.]-- CHAPTER XXIX. · ¶1036
• "Fortunae miseras auximus arte vias." CHAPTER XXIX. · ¶1041
• It is very likely that this extreme irruption and inundation of water made wonderful changes and alterations in the habitations of the earth, as 'tis said that the sea then divided Sicily from Italy-- CHAPTER XXX · ¶1050
• "Haec loca, vi quondam et vasta convulsa ruina, Dissiluisse ferunt, quum protenus utraque tellus Una foret" CHAPTER XXX · ¶1051
• Cyprus from Syria, the isle of Negropont from the continent of Beeotia, and elsewhere united lands that were separate before, by filling up the channel betwixt them with sand and mud: CHAPTER XXX · ¶1053
• "Sterilisque diu palus, aptaque remis, Vicinas urbes alit, et grave sentit aratrum." CHAPTER XXX · ¶1054

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