The Essays of Michel de Montaigne, Volume 2G. Bell & Sons, Limited, 1908 |
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
according actions Æneid amongst ancient animals Aristotle arms atque authority beasts beauty believe better betwixt body Cæsar Carneades cause Chrysippus Cicero condition confess contrary Dæmon danger death Democritus Diogenes Laertius discourse disease divine effect enemy Epicureans Epicurus example eyes fancy father favour fear forasmuch force fortune give glory gods hand Herodotus honour human humour ibid Idem imagination infinite judge judgment kill king knowledge Lacedæmonians laws liberty live LUCRETIUS Lycurgus manner matter mortal motion nature never opinion ourselves pain passion peradventure philosophers physicians Plato pleasure Pliny Plutarch Pompey present Pyrrho Quæs quam quod reason religion reputation Roman Rome Seneca sense Sextus Empiricus Socrates soever soldiers sort soul speak Suetonius suffer Tacitus things thou torments truth Tusc ubi supra Valerius Maximus valour vice virtue vita wherein words Xenophon
Popular passages
Page 192 - Where is the wise? where is the scribe? where is the disputer of this world? has not God made foolish the wisdom of this world? For after that in the wisdom of God the world by wisdom knew not God, it pleased God by the foolishness of preaching to save them that believe.
Page 162 - The souls of emperors and cobblers are cast in the same mould ; the weight and importance of the actions of princes considered, we persuade ourselves that they must be produced by some as weighty and important causes : but we are deceived ; for they are pushed on and pulled back in their movements by the same springs that we are in our little...
Page 388 - I have no more made my book than my book has made me— a book consubstantial with its author, concerned with my own self, an integral part of my life; not concerned with some third-hand, extraneous purpose, like all other books.
Page 344 - I care not so much what I am in the opinion of others, ' as what I am in my own ; I ;would be rich of myself, and not by borrowing.
Page 187 - cui sic extorta voluptas et demptus per vim mentis gratissimus error».
Page 92 - But boldly to confess the truth (for since one has passed the barriers of impudence, off with the bridle), his way of writing, and that of all other long-winded authors, appears to me very tedious : for his prefaces, definitions, divisions, and etymologies take up the greatest part of his work: whatever there is of life and marrow is smothered and lost in the long preparation.
Page 352 - Lucili ritu, nostrum melioris utroque. ille velut fidis arcana sodalibus olim 30 credebat libris, neque si male cesserat, usquam decurrens alio, neque si bene: quo fit, ut omnis votiva pateat veluti descripta tabella vita senis.
Page 134 - ... withal the proudest. He feels and sees himself lodged here in the dirt and filth of the world, nailed and...
Page 251 - ... esse apibus partem divinae mentis et haustus 220 aetherios dixere ; deum namque ire per omnes terrasque tractusque maris caelumque profundum ; hinc pecudes, armenta, viros, genus omne ferarum, quemque sibi tenues nascentem arcessere vitas...
Page 305 - ... et violare fidem primam et convellere tota fundamenta quibus nixatur vita salusque. non modo enim ratio ruat omnis, vita quoque ipsa concidat extemplo, nisi credere sensibus ausis praecipitesque locos vitare et cetera quae sint 510 in genere hoc fugienda, sequi contraria quae sint.