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One of the advantages of +internet over paper publication is the ease of quick revision. + +All the titles may be found using the Project Gutenberg search engine +at: + http://promo.net/pg/ + +After downloading a specific file, the location and complete context of +the quotations may be found by inserting a small part of the quotation +into the 'Find' or 'Search' functions of the user's word processing +program. + +The quotations are in two formats: + 1. Small passages from the text. + 2. Lists of alphabetized one-liners. + +The editor may be contacted at <widger@cecomet.net> for comments, +questions or suggested additions to these extracts. + +D.W. + + + + + +CONTENTS: + +Dec 2002 The Essays of Montaigne, V01, 1877, Cotton +[MN#01][mn01v10.txt]3581 +THE LIFE OF MONTAIGNE +THE LETTERS OF MONTAIGNE + + + +Dec 2002 The Essays of Montaigne, V02, 1877, Cotton +[MN#02][mn02v10.txt]3582 +BOOK THE FIRST.--CHAP. I. to XII. +I. That Men by Various Ways Arrive at the Same End. +II. Of Sorrow. +III. That our affections carry themselves beyond us . +IV. That the soul discharges her passions upon false objects, where + the true are wanting. +V. Whether the governor of a place besieged ought himself to go + out to parley. +VI. That the hour of parley is dangerous. +VII. That the intention is judge of our actions. +VIII. Of idleness. +IX. Of liars. +X. Of quick or slow speech. +XI. Of prognostications. +XII. Of constancy. + + +Dec 2002 The Essays of Montaigne, V03, 1877, Cotton +[MN#03][mn03v10.txt]3583 +BOOK THE FIRST.--CHAP. XIII. to XXI. +XIII. The ceremony of the interview of princes. +XIV. That men are justly punished for being obstinate in the defence + of a fort. +XV. Of the punishment of cowardice. +XVI. A proceeding of some ambassadors. +XVII. Of fear. +XVIII. That men are not to judge of our happiness till after death. +XIX. That to study philosophy is to learn to die. +XX. Of the force of imagination. +XXI. That the profit of one man is the damage of another. + + +Dec 2002 The Essays of Montaigne, V04, 1877, Cotton +[MN#04][mn04v10.txt]3584 +BOOK THE FIRST.--CHAP. XXII. to XXIV. +XXII. Of custom, and that we should not easily change a law received +XXIII. Various events from the same counsel. +XXIV. Of pedantry. + + +Dec 2002 The Essays of Montaigne, V05, 1877, Cotton +[MN#05][mn05v10.txt]3585 +BOOK THE FIRST.--CHAP. XXV. to XXVI. +XXV. Of the education of children. +XXVI. That it is folly to measure truth and error by our own + capacity. + + +Dec 2002 The Essays of Montaigne, V06, 1877, Cotton +[MN#06][mn06v10.txt]3586 +BOOK THE FIRST.--CHAP. XXVII. to XXXVIII. +XXVII. Of friendship. +XXVIII. Nine-and-twenty sonnets of Estienne de la Boetie. +XXIX. Of moderation. +XXX. Of cannibals. +XXXI. That a man is soberly to judge of the divine ordinances. +XXXII. That we are to avoid pleasures, even at the expense of life. +XXXIII. That fortune is oftentimes observed to act by the rule of + reason. +XXXIV. Of one defect in our government. +XXXV. Of the custom of wearing clothes. +XXXVI. Of Cato the Younger. +XXXVII. That we laugh and cry for the same thing. +XXXVIII. Of solitude. + + +Dec 2002 The Essays of Montaigne, V07, 1877, Cotton +[MN#07][mn07v10.txt]3587 +BOOK THE FIRST.--CHAP. XXXIX. to XLVII. +XXXIX. A consideration upon Cicero. +XL. That the relish of good and evil depends in a great measure + upon opinion. +XLI. Not to communicate a man's honour. +XLII. Of the inequality amongst us. +XLIII. Of sumptuary laws. +XLIV. Of sleep. +XLV. Of the battle of Dreux. +XLVI. Of names. +XLVII. Of the uncertainty of our judgment. + + +Dec 2002 The Essays of Montaigne, V08, 1877, Cotton +[MN#08][mn08v10.txt]3588 +BOOK THE FIRST.--CHAP. XLVIII. to LVII. +XLVIII. Of war-horses, or destriers. +XLIX. Of ancient customs. +L. Of Democritus and Heraclitus. +LI. Of the vanity of words. +LII. Of the parsimony of the Ancients. +LIII. Of a saying of Caesar. +LIV. Of vain subtleties. +LV. Of smells. +LVI. Of prayers. +LVII. Of age. + + +Dec 2002 The Essays of Montaigne, V09, 1877, Cotton +[MN#09][mn09v10.txt]3589 +BOOK THE SECOND.--CHAP. I. to VI. +I. Of the inconstancy of our actions. +II. Of drunkenness. +III. A custom of the Isle of Cea. +IV. To-morrow's a new day. +V. Of conscience. +VI. Use makes perfect. + + +Dec 2002 The Essays of Montaigne, V10, 1877, Cotton +[MN#10][mn10v10.txt]3590 +BOOK THE SECOND.--CHAP. VII. to XII. +VII. Of recompenses of honour. +VIII. Of the affection of fathers to their children. +IX. Of the arms of the Parthians. +X. Of books. +XI. Of cruelty. +XII. + +Dec 2002 The Essays of Montaigne, V11, 1877, Cotton +[MN#11][mn11v10.txt]3591 +BOOK THE SECOND.--CHAP. XIII. to XVII. +XIII. Of judging of the death of another. +XIV. That the mind hinders itself. +XV. That our desires are augmented by difficulty. +XVI. Of glory. +XVII. Of presumption. + +Dec 2002 The Essays of Montaigne, V12, 1877, Cotton +[MN#12][mn12v10.txt]3592 +BOOK THE SECOND.--CHAP. XVIII. to XXXI. +XVIII. Of giving the lie. +XIX. Of liberty of conscience. +XX. That we taste nothing pure. +XXI. Against idleness. +XXII. Of Posting. +XXIII. Of ill means employed to a good end. +XXIV. Of the Roman grandeur. +XXV. Not to counterfeit being sick. +XXVI. Of thumbs. +XXVII. Cowardice the mother of cruelty. +XXVIII. All things have their season. +XXIX. Of virtue. +XXX. Of a monstrous child. +XXXI. Of anger. + + +Dec 2002 The Essays of Montaigne, V13, 1877, Cotton +[MN#13][mn13v10.txt]3593 +BOOK THE SECOND.--CHAP. XXXII. to XXXVII. +XXXII. Defence of Seneca and Plutarch. +XXXIII. The story of Spurina. +XXXIV. Observation on the means to carry on a war according to Julius + Caesar. +XXXV. Of three good women. +XXXVI. Of the most excellent men. +XXXVII. Of the resemblance of children to their fathers. + + +Dec 2002 The Essays of Montaigne, V14, 1877, Cotton +[MN#14][mn14v10.txt]3594 +BOOK THE THIRD.--CHAP. I. to IV. +I. Of Profit and Honesty. +II. Of Repentance. +III. Of Three Commerces. +IV. Of Diversion. + + +Dec 2002 The Essays of Montaigne, V15, 1877, Cotton +[MN#15][mn15v10.txt]3595 +BOOK THE THIRD.--CHAP. V. +V. Upon Some verses of Virgil. + + +Dec 2002 The Essays of Montaigne, V16, 1877, Cotton +[MN#16][mn16v10.txt]3596 +BOOK THE THIRD.--CHAP. VI. to VIII. +VI. Of Coaches. +VII. Of the Inconvenience of Greatness. +VIII. Of the Art of Conference. + + +Dec 2002 The Essays of Montaigne, V17, 1877, Cotton +[MN#17][mn17v10.txt]3597 +BOOK THE THIRD.--CHAP. IX. +IX. Of Vanity. + + +Dec 2002 The Essays of Montaigne, V18, 1877, Cotton +[MN#18][mn18v10.txt]3598 +BOOK THE THIRD.--CHAP. X. to XII. +X. Of Managing the Will. +XI. Of Cripples. +XII. Of Physiognomy. + + + +Dec 2002 The Essays of Montaigne, V19, 1877, Cotton +[MN#19][mn19v10.txt]3599 +BOOK THE THIRD.--CHAP. XIII. +XIII. Of Experience. + + +Dec 2002 The Complete Essays of Montaigne, Cotton +[MN#20][mn20v10.txt]3600 +Entire Project Gutenberg Montaigne Letters and Essays ed. 1877 + +BOOK THE FIRST: +I. That men by various ways arrive at the same end. +II. Of Sorrow. +III. That our affections carry themselves beyond us . +IV. That the soul discharges her passions upon false objects, where + the true are wanting. +V. Whether the governor of a place besieged ought himself to go out + to parley. +VI. That the hour of parley is dangerous. +VII. That the intention is judge of our actions +VIII. Of idleness. +IX. Of liars. +X. Of quick or slow speech. +XI. Of prognostications. +XII. Of constancy. +XIII. The ceremony of the interview of princes. +XIV. That men are justly punished for being obstinate in the defence + of a fort that is not in reason to be defended. +XV. Of the punishment of cowardice. +XVI. A proceeding of some ambassadors. +XVII. Of fear. +XVIII. That men are not to judge of our happiness till after death. +XIX. That to study philosophy is to learn to die. +XX. Of the force of imagination. +XXI. That the profit of one man is the damage of another. +XXII. Of custom, and that we should not easily change a law received . +XXIII. Various events from the same counsel. +XXIV. Of pedantry. +XXV. Of the education of children. +XXVI. That it is folly to measure truth and error by our own capacity. +XXVII. Of friendship. +XXVIII. Nine-and-twenty sonnets of Estienne de la Boetie. +XXIX. Of moderation. +XXX. Of cannibals, +XXXI. That a man is soberly to judge of the divine ordinances. +XXXII. That we are to avoid pleasures, even at the expense of + life. +XXXIII. That fortune is oftentimes observed to act by the rule of reason. +XXXIV. Of one defect in our government. +XXXV. Of the custom of wearing clothes +XXXVI. Of Cato the Younger. +XXXVII. That we laugh and cry for the same thing. +XXXVIII.Of solitude. +XXXIX. A consideration upon Cicero, +XL. That the relish of good and evil depends in a great measure upon + the opinion we have of them. +XLI. Not to communicate a man's honour. +XLII. Of the inequality amongst us. +XLIII. Of sumptuary laws. +XLIV. Of sleep. +XLV. Of the battle of Dreux. +XLVI. Of names. +XLVII. Of the uncertainty of our judgment. +XLVIII. Of war-horses, or destriers. +XLIX. Of ancient customs. +L. Of Democritus and Heraclitus. +LI. Of the vanity of words. +LII. Of the parsimony of the Ancients. +LIII. Of a saying of Caesar. +LIV. Of vain subtleties. +LV. Of smells. +LVI. Of prayers. +LVII. Of age. + +BOOK THE SECOND: +I. Of the inconstancy of our actions. +II. Of drunkenness. +III. A custom of the Isle of Cea. +IV. To-morrow's a new day. +V. Of conscience. +VI. Use makes perfect. +VII. Of recompenses of honour. +VIII. Of the affection of fathers to their children. +IX. Of the arms of the Parthians. +X. Of books. +XI. Of cruelty. +XII. Apology for Raimond de Sebonde (Not included) +XIII. Of judging of the death of another. +XIV. That the mind hinders itself. +XV. That our desires are augmented by difficulty. +XVI. Of glory. +XVII. Of presumption. +XVIII. Of giving the lie. +XIX. Of liberty of conscience. +XX. That we taste nothing pure. +XXI. Against idleness. +XXII. Of Posting. +XXIII. Of ill means employed to a good end. +XXIV. Of the Roman grandeur. +XXV. Not to counterfeit being sick. +XXVI. Of thumbs. +XXVII. Cowardice the mother of cruelty. +XXVIII. All things have their season. +XXIX. Of virtue. +XXX. Of a monstrous child. +XXXI. Of anger. +XXXII. Defence of Seneca and Plutarch. +XXXIII. The story of Spurina. +XXXIV. Observation on the means to carry on a war according to Julius + Caesar. +XXXV. Of three good women. +XXXVI. Of the most excellent men. +XXXVII. Of the resemblance of children to their fathers. + +BOOK THE THIRD: +I. Of Profit and Honesty. +II. Of Repentance. +III. Of Three Commerces. +IV. Of Diversion. +V. Upon Some verses of Virgil. +VI. Of Coaches. +VII. Of the Inconvenience of Greatness. +VIII. Of the Art of Conference. +IX. Of Vanity. +X. Of Managing the Will. +XI. Of Cripples. +XII. Of Physiognomy. +XIII. Of Experience. + + + + + + + WIDGER'S QUOTATIONS + + +Dec 2002 The Essays of Montaigne, V01, 1877, Cotton +[MN#01][mn01v10.txt]3581 +THE LIFE OF MONTAIGNE +THE LETTERS OF MONTAIGNE + +Arts of persuasion, to insinuate it into our minds +Help: no other effect than that of lengthening my suffering +Judgment of great things is many times formed from lesser thing +Option now of continuing in life or of completing the voyage +Two principal guiding reins are reward and punishment +Virtue and ambition, unfortunately, seldom lodge together + + + + +Dec 2002 The Essays of Montaigne, V02, 1877, Cotton +[MN#02][mn02v10.txt]3582 +BOOK THE FIRST.--CHAP. I. to XII. +I. That Men by Various Ways Arrive at the Same End. +II. Of Sorrow. +III. That our affections carry themselves beyond us . +IV. That the soul discharges her passions upon false objects, where + the true are wanting. +V. Whether the governor of a place besieged ought himself to go + out to parley. +VI. That the hour of parley is dangerous. +VII. That the intention is judge of our actions. +VIII. Of idleness. +IX. Of liars. +X. Of quick or slow speech. +XI. Of prognostications. +XII. Of constancy. + + + +Almanacs +Being dead they were then by one day happier than he. +Books I read over again, still smile upon me with fresh novelty +Death discharges us of all our obligations +Difference betwixt memory and understanding +Do thine own work, and know thyself +Effect and performance are not at all in our power +Fantastic gibberish of the prophetic canting +Folly of gaping after future things +Good to be certain and finite, and evil, infinite and uncertain +He who lives everywhere, lives nowhere +If they chop upon one truth, that carries a mighty report +Iimpotencies that so unseasonably surprise the lover +Let it be permitted to the timid to hope +Light griefs can speak: deep sorrows are dumb +Look, you who think the gods have no care of human things +Nature of judgment to have it more deliberate and more slow +Nature of wit is to have its operation prompt and sudden +Nor have other tie upon one another, but by our word +Old men who retain the memory of things past +Pity is reputed a vice amongst the Stoics +Rather complain of ill-fortune than be ashamed of victory +Reverse of truth has a hundred thousand forms +Say of some compositions that they stink of oil and of the lamp +Solon, that none can be said to be happy until he is dead +Strong memory is commonly coupled with infirm judgment +Stumble upon a truth amongst an infinite number of lies +Suffer those inconveniences which are not possibly to be avoided +Superstitiously to seek out in the stars the ancient causes +Their pictures are not here who were cast away +Things I say are better than those I write +We are masters of nothing but the will +We cannot be bound beyond what we are able to perform +Where the lion's skin is too short + + + + +Dec 2002 The Essays of Montaigne, V03, 1877, Cotton +[MN#03][mn03v10.txt]3583 +BOOK THE FIRST.--CHAP. XIII. to XXI. +XIII. The ceremony of the interview of princes. +XIV. That men are justly punished for being obstinate in the defence + of a fort. +XV. Of the punishment of cowardice. +XVI. A proceeding of some ambassadors. +XVII. Of fear. +XVIII. That men are not to judge of our happiness till after death. +XIX. That to study philosophy is to learn to die. +XX. Of the force of imagination. +XXI. That the profit of one man is the damage of another. + +Accommodated my subject to my strength +Affright people with the very mention of death +All I aim at is, to pass my time at my ease +All think he has yet twenty good years to come +Apprenticeship and a resemblance of death +Become a fool by too much wisdom +Both himself and his posterity declared ignoble, taxable +Caesar: he would be thought an excellent engineer to boot +Courtesy and good manners is a very necessary study +Dangers do, in truth, little or nothing hasten our end +Death can, whenever we please, cut short inconveniences +Death has us every moment by the throat +Death is a part of you +Denying all solicitation, both of hand and mind +Did my discourses came only from my mouth or from my heart +Die well--that is, patiently and tranquilly +Discover what there is of good and clean in the bottom of the po +Downright and sincere obedience +Every day travels towards death; the last only arrives at it +Fear is more importunate and insupportable than death itself +Fear to lose a thing, which being lost, cannot be lamented? +Fear: begets a terrible astonishment and confusion +Feared, lest disgrace should make such delinquents desperate +Give these young wenches the things they long for +Have you ever found any who have been dissatisfied with dying? +How many more have died before they arrived at thy age +How many several ways has death to surprise us? +How much more insupportable and painful an immortal life +I have lived longer by this one day than I should have done +I take hold of, as little glorious and exemplary as you will +If nature do not help a little, it is very hard +In this last scene of death, there is no more counterfeiting +Inclination to love one another at the first sight +Indocile liberty of this member +Insensible of the stroke when our youth dies in us +Live at the expense of life itself. +Much better to offend him once than myself every day +Nature, who left us in such a state of imperfection +Neither men nor their lives are measured by the ell +No man more certain than another of to-morrow. --Seneca +No one can be called happy till he is dead and buried +Not certain to live till I came home +Not melancholic, but meditative +Nothing can be a grievance that is but once +Philosophy is nothing but to prepare one's self to die +Premeditation of death is the premeditation of liberty +Profit made only at the expense of another +Rather prating of another man's province than his own +Same folly as to be sorry we were not alive a hundred years ago +Slaves, or exiles, ofttimes live as merrily as other folk +some people rude, by being overcivil in their courtesy +The day of your birth is one day's advance towards the grave +The deadest deaths are the best +The thing in the world I am most afraid of is fear +There is no long, nor short, to things that are no more +Thing at which we all aim, even in virtue is pleasure +Things often appear greater to us at distance than near at hand +To study philosophy is nothing but to prepare one's self to die +Utility of living consists not in the length of days +Valour has its bounds as well as other virtues +Valuing the interest of discipline +Well, and what if it had been death itself? +What may be done to-morrow, may be done to-day. +Who would weigh him without the honour and grandeur of his end. +Willingly slip the collar of command upon any pretence whatever +Woman who goes to bed to a man, must put off her modesty +You must first see us die +Young and old die upon the same terms + + + + +Dec 2002 The Essays of Montaigne, V04, 1877, Cotton +[MN#04][mn04v10.txt]3584 +BOOK THE FIRST.--CHAP. XXII. to XXIV. +XXII. Of custom, and that we should not easily change a law received +XXIII. Various events from the same counsel. +XXIV. Of pedantry. + +A parrot would say as much as that +Agesilaus, what he thought most proper for boys to learn? +But it is not enough that our education does not spoil us +Conscience, which we pretend to be derived from nature +Culling out of several books the sentences that best please me +"Custom," replied Plato, "is no little thing" +Education +Examine, who is better learned, than who is more learned +Fear and distrust invite and draw on offence +Fortune will still be mistress of events +Fox, who found fault with what he could not obtain +Fruits of public commotion are seldom enjoyed +Gave them new and more plausible names for their excuse +Give me time to recover my strength and health +Great presumption to be so fond of one's own opinions +Gross impostures of religions +Hoary head and rivelled face of ancient usage +Hold a stiff rein upon suspicion +I have a great aversion from a novelty +Knowledge is not so absolutely necessary as judgment +Laws do what they can, when they cannot do what they would +Man can never be wise but by his own wisdom +Memories are full enough, but the judgment totally void +Miracles appear to be so, according to our ignorance of nature +Nothing noble can be performed without danger +Only set the humours they would purge more violently in work +Ought not to expect much either from his vigilance or power +Ought to withdraw and retire his soul from the crowd +Over-circumspect and wary prudence is a mortal enemy +Physic +Physician worse physicked +Plays of children are not performed in play +Present himself with a halter about his neck to the people +Rome was more valiant before she grew so learned +Study to declare what is justice, but never took care to do it. +Testimony of the truth from minds prepossessed by custom? +They neither instruct us to think well nor to do well +Think of physic as much good or ill as any one would have me +Use veils from us the true aspect of things +Victorious envied the conquered +We only labour to stuff the memory +We take other men's knowledge and opinions upon trust +Weakness and instability of a private and particular fancy +What they ought to do when they come to be men +Whosoever despises his own life, is always master +Worse endure an ill-contrived robe than an ill-contrived mind + + + + +Dec 2002 The Essays of Montaigne, V05, 1877, Cotton +[MN#05][mn05v10.txt]3585 +BOOK THE FIRST.--CHAP. XXV. to XXVI. +XXV. Of the education of children. +XXVI. That it is folly to measure truth and error by our own +capacity. + +A child should not be brought up in his mother's lap +Acquiesce and submit to truth +Affect words that are not of current use +Anything appears greatest to him that never knew a greater +Appetite to read more, than glutted with that we have +Applaud his judgment than commend his knowledge +Attribute facility of belief to simplicity and ignorance +Away with this violence! away with this compulsion! +Bears well a changed fortune, acting both parts equally well +Belief compared to the impression of a seal upon the soul +cloak on one shoulder, my cap on one side, a stocking disordered +College: a real house of correction of imprisoned youth +Disgorge what we eat in the same condition it was swallowed +Education ought to be carried on with a severe sweetness +Eloquence prejudices the subject it would advance +Fear was not that I should do ill, but that I should do nothing +Glory and curiosity are the scourges of the soul +Hobbes said that if he Had been at college as long as others-- +Inquisitive after everything +Insert whole sections and pages out of ancient authors +It is no hard matter to get children +Learn what it is right to wish +Least touch or prick of a pencil in comparison of the whole +Let him be satisfied with correcting himself +Let him examine every man's talent +Light prognostics they give of themselves in their tender years +Living well, which of all arts is the greatest +Lodge nothing in his fancy upon simple authority and upon trust +Man may say too much even upon the best subjects +Miracle: everything our reason cannot comprehend +Morosity and melancholic humour of a sour ill-natured pedant +Mothers are too tender +Negligent garb, which is yet observable amongst the young men +Nobody prognosticated that I should be wicked, but only useless +Not having been able to pronounce one syllable, which is No. +O Athenians, what this man says, I will do +Obstinacy and contention are common qualities +Occasion to La Boetie to write his "Voluntary Servitude" +Philosophy has discourses proper for childhood +Philosophy is that which instructs us to live +Philosophy looked upon as a vain and fantastic name +Preface to bribe the benevolence of the courteous reader +Reading those books, converse with the great and heroic souls +Silence, therefore, and modesty are very advantageous qualities +So many trillions of men, buried before us +Sparing and an husband of his knowledge +The conduct of our lives is the true mirror of our doctrine +The most manifest sign of wisdom is a continual cheerfulness +Their labour is not to delivery, but about conception +There is nothing like alluring the appetite and affections +They begin to teach us to live when we have almost done living +Things grow familiar to men's minds by being often seen +To condemn them as impossible, is by a temerarious presumption +To contemn what we do not comprehend +To go a mile out of their way to hook in a fine word +To know by rote, is no knowledge +Tongue will grow too stiff to bend +Totally brutified by an immoderate thirst after knowledge +Unbecoming rudeness to carp at everything +Unjust to exact from me what I do not owe +Where their profit is, let them there have their pleasure too +Who by their fondness of some fine sounding word + + + + + +Dec 2002 The Essays of Montaigne, V06, 1877, Cotton +[MN#06][mn06v10.txt]3586 +BOOK THE FIRST.--CHAP. XXVII. to XXXVIII. +XXVII. Of friendship. +XXVIII. Nine-and-twenty sonnets of Estienne de la Boetie. +XXIX. Of moderation. +XXX. Of cannibals. +XXXI. That a man is soberly to judge of the divine ordinances. +XXXII. That we are to avoid pleasures, even at the expense of life. +XXXIII. That fortune is oftentimes observed to act by the rule of + reason. +XXXIV. Of one defect in our government. +XXXV. Of the custom of wearing clothes. +XXXVI. Of Cato the Younger. +XXXVII. That we laugh and cry for the same thing. +XXXVIII. Of solitude. + + +A man must either imitate the vicious or hate them +Abhorrence of the patient are necessary circumstances +Acquire by his writings an immortal life +Addict thyself to the study of letters +Always the perfect religion +And hate him so as you were one day to love him +Archer that shoots over, misses as much as he that falls short +Art that could come to the knowledge of but few persons +Being over-studious, we impair our health and spoil our humour +By the misery of this life, aiming at bliss in another +Carnal appetites only supported by use and exercise +Coming out of the same hole +Common friendships will admit of division +Dost thou, then, old man, collect food for others' ears? +Either tranquil life, or happy death +Enslave our own contentment to the power of another +Entertain us with fables:astrologers and physicians +Everything has many faces and several aspects +Extremity of philosophy is hurtful +Friendships that the law and natural obligation impose upon us +Gewgaw to hang in a cabinet or at the end of the tongue +Gratify the gods and nature by massacre and murder +He took himself along with him +He will choose to be alone +Headache should come before drunkenness +High time to die when there is more ill than good in living +Honour of valour consists in fighting, not in subduing +How uncertain duration these accidental conveniences are +I bequeath to Areteus the maintenance of my mother +I for my part always went the plain way to work +I love temperate and moderate natures +Impostures: very strangeness lends them credit +In solitude, be company for thyself--Tibullus +In the meantime, their halves were begging at their doors +Interdict all gifts betwixt man and wife +It is better to die than to live miserable +Judge by the eye of reason, and not from common report +Knot is not so sure that a man may not half suspect it will slip +Lascivious poet: Homer +Laying themselves low to avoid the danger of falling +Leave society when we can no longer add anything to it +Little less trouble in governing a private family than a kingdom +Love we bear to our wives is very lawful +Man (must) know that he is his own +Marriage +Men should furnish themselves with such things as would float +Methinks I am no more than half of myself +Must for the most part entertain ourselves with ourselves +Never represent things to you simply as they are +No effect of virtue, to have stronger arms and legs +Not in a condition to lend must forbid himself to borrow +Nothing is so firmly believed, as what we least know +O my friends, there is no friend: Aristotle +Oftentimes agitated with divers passions +Ordinary friendships, you are to walk with bridle in your hand +Ought not only to have his hands, but his eyes, too, chaste +Our judgments are yet sick +Perfect friendship I speak of is indivisible +Philosophy +Physicians cure by misery and pain. +Prefer in bed, beauty before goodness +Pretending to find out the cause of every accident +Reputation: most useless, frivolous, and false coin that passes +Reserve a backshop, wholly our own and entirely free +Rest satisfied, without desire of prolongation of life or name +Stilpo lost wife, children, and goods +Stilpo: thank God, nothing was lost of his +Take two sorts of grist out of the same sack +Taking things upon trust from vulgar opinion +Tearing a body limb from limb by racks and torments +The consequence of common examples +There are defeats more triumphant than victories +They can neither lend nor give anything to one another +They have yet touched nothing of that which is mine +They must be very hard to please, if they are not contented +Things that engage us elsewhere and separate us from ourselves +This decay of nature which renders him useless, burdensome +This plodding occupation of bookes is as painfull as any other +Those immodest and debauched tricks and postures +Though I be engaged to one forme, I do not tie the world unto it +Title of barbarism to everything that is not familiar +To give a currency to his little pittance of learning +To make their private advantage at the public expense +Under fortune's favour, to prepare myself for her disgrace +Vice of confining their belief to their own capacity +We have lived enough for others +We have more curiosity than capacity +We still carry our fetters along with us +When time begins to wear things out of memory +Wherever the mind is perplexed, it is in an entire disorder +Who can flee from himself +Wise man never loses anything if he have himself +Wise whose invested money is visible in beautiful villas +Write what he knows, and as much as he knows, but no more +You and your companion are theatre enough to one another + + + + +Dec 2002 The Essays of Montaigne, V07, 1877, Cotton +[MN#07][mn07v10.txt]3587 +BOOK THE FIRST.--CHAP. XXXIX. to XLVII. +XXXIX. A consideration upon Cicero. +XL. That the relish of good and evil depends in a great measure + upon opinion. +XLI. Not to communicate a man's honour. +XLII. Of the inequality amongst us. +XLIII. Of sumptuary laws. +XLIV. Of sleep. +XLV. Of the battle of Dreux. +XLVI. Of names. +XLVII. Of the uncertainty of our judgment. + +"Art thou not ashamed," said he to him, "to sing so well?" +As great a benefit to be without (children) +Away with that eloquence that enchants us with itself +Because the people know so well how to obey +Blemishes of the great naturally appear greater +Change is to be feared +Cicero: on fame +Confidence in another man's virtue +Dangerous man you have deprived of all means to escape +Depend as much upon fortune as anything else we do +Fame: an echo, a dream, nay, the shadow of a dream +Far more easy and pleasant to follow than to lead +He who lays the cloth is ever at the charge of the feast +I honour those most to whom I show the least honour +In war not to drive an enemy to despair +My words does but injure the love I have conceived within. +Neither the courage to die nor the heart to live +Never spoke of my money, but falsely, as others do +No great choice betwixt not knowing to speak anything but ill +No man continues ill long but by his own fault +No necessity upon a man to live in necessity +No passion so contagious as that of fear +Not a victory that puts not an end to the war +Not want, but rather abundance, that creates avarice +Only secure harbour from the storms and tempests of life +Opinions they have of things and not by the things themselves +People conceiving they have right and title to be judges +Pyrrho's hog +Repute for value in them, not what they bring to us +Satisfaction of mind to have only one path to walk in +That which cowardice itself has chosen for its refuge +The honour we receive from those that fear us is not honour +The pedestal is no part of the statue +There is more trouble in keeping money than in getting it. +There is nothing I hate so much as driving a bargain +Thou wilt not feel it long if thou feelest it too much +Tis the sharpnss of our mind that gives the edge to our pains +Titles being so dearly bought +Twenty people prating about him when he is at stool +Valour whetted and enraged by mischance +What can they not do, what do they fear to do (for beauty) + + + + +Dec 2002 The Essays of Montaigne, V08, 1877, Cotton +[MN#08][mn08v10.txt]3588 +BOOK THE FIRST.--CHAP. XLVIII. to LVII. +XLVIII. Of war-horses, or destriers. +XLIX. Of ancient customs. +L. Of Democritus and Heraclitus. +LI. Of the vanity of words. +LII. Of the parsimony of the Ancients. +LIII. Of a saying of Caesar. +LIV. Of vain subtleties. +LV. Of smells. +LVI. Of prayers. +LVII. Of age. + +Advise to choose weapons of the shortest sort +An ignorance that knowledge creates and begets +Ashamed to lay out as much thought and study upon it +Can neither keep nor enjoy anything with a good grace +Change of fashions +Chess: this idle and childish game +Death is terrible to Cicero, coveted by Cato +Death of old age the most rare and very seldom seen +Diogenes, esteeming us no better than flies or bladders +Do not to pray that all things may go as we would have them +Excel above the common rate in frivolous things +Expresses more contempt and condemnation than the other +Fancy that others cannot believe otherwise than as he does +Gradations above and below pleasure +Greatest apprehensions, from things unseen, concealed +He did not think mankind worthy of a wise man's concern +Home anxieties and a mind enslaved by wearing complaints +How infirm and decaying material this fabric of ours is +I do not willingly alight when I am once on horseback +Led by the ears by this charming harmony of words +Little knacks and frivolous subtleties +Men approve of things for their being rare and new +Must of necessity walk in the steps of another +Natural death the most rare and very seldom seen +Not to instruct but to be instructed +Present Him such words as the memory suggests to the tongue +Psalms of King David: promiscuous, indiscreet +Rhetoric: an art to flatter and deceive +Rhetoric: to govern a disorderly and tumultuous rabble +Sitting betwixt two stools +Sometimes the body first submits to age, sometimes the mind +Stupidity and facility natural to the common people +The Bible: the wicked and ignorant grow worse by it +The faintness that surprises in the exercises of Venus +Thucydides: which was the better wrestler +To die of old age is a death rare, extraordinary, and singular +To make little things appear great was his profession +To smell, though well, is to stink +Valour will cause a trembling in the limbs as well as fear +Viscid melting kisses of youthful ardour in my wanton age +We can never be despised according to our full desert +When we have got it, we want something else +Women who paint, pounce, and plaster up their ruins + + + + +Dec 2002 The Essays of Montaigne, V09, 1877, Cotton +[MN#09][mn09v10.txt]3589 +BOOK THE SECOND.--CHAP. I. to VI. +I. Of the inconstancy of our actions. +II. Of drunkenness. +III. A custom of the Isle of Cea. +IV. To-morrow's a new day. +V. Of conscience. +VI. Use makes perfect. + + +Addresses his voyage to no certain port +All apprentices when we come to it(death) +Any one may deprive us of life; no one can deprive us of death +Business to-morrow +Condemning wine, because some people will be drunk +Conscience makes us betray, accuse, and fight against ourselves +Curiosity and of that eager passion for news +Delivered into our own custody the keys of life +Drunkeness a true and certain trial of every one's nature +I can more hardly believe a man's constancy than any virtue +"I wish you good health." "No health to thee," replied the other +If to philosophise be, as 'tis defined, to doubt +Improperly we call this voluntary dissolution, despair +It's madness to nourish infirmity +Let him be as wise as he will, after all he is but a man +Living is slavery if the liberty of dying be wanting. +Look upon themselves as a third person only, a stranger +Lower himself to the meanness of defending his innocence +Much difference betwixt us and ourselves +No alcohol the night on which a man intends to get children +No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness +Not conclude too much upon your mistress's inviolable chastity +One door into life, but a hundred thousand ways out +Ordinary method of cure is carried on at the expense of life +Plato forbids children wine till eighteen years of age +Shame for me to serve, being so near the reach of liberty +Speak less of one's self than what one really is is folly +Taught to consider sleep as a resemblance of death +The action is commendable, not the man. +The most voluntary death is the finest +The vice opposite to curiosity is negligence +Things seem greater by imagination than they are in effect +Thy own cowardice is the cause, if thou livest in pain +Tis evil counsel that will admit no change +Torture: rather a trial of patience than of truth +We do not go, we are driven +What can they suffer who do not fear to die? +Whoever expects punishment already suffers it +Wise man lives as long as he ought, not so long as he can + + + + +Dec 2002 The Essays of Montaigne, V10, 1877, Cotton +[MN#10][mn10v10.txt]3590 +BOOK THE SECOND.--CHAP. VII. to XII. +VII. Of recompenses of honour. +VIII. Of the affection of fathers to their children. +IX. Of the arms of the Parthians. +X. Of books. +XI. Of cruelty. +XII. + +A little cheese when a mind to make a feast +A word ill taken obliterates ten years' merit +Cato said: So many servants, so many enemies +Cherish themselves most where they are most wrong +Condemn all violence in the education of a tender soul +Cruelty is the very extreme of all vices +Disguise, by their abridgments and at their own choice +Epicurus +Flatterer in your old age or in your sickness +He felt a pleasure and delight in so noble an action +He judged other men by himself +I cannot well refuse to play with my dog +I do not much lament the dead, and should envy them rather +I had rather be old a brief time, than be old before old age +I owe it rather to my fortune than my reason +Incline the history to their own fancy +It (my books) may know many things that are gone from me +Knowledge and truth may be in us without judgment +Learn the theory from those who best know the practice +Loved them for our sport, like monkeys, and not as men +Motive to some vicious occasion or some prospect of profit +My books: from me hold that which I have not retained +My dog unseasonably importunes me to play +My innocence is a simple one; little vigour and no art +Never observed any great stability in my soul to resist passions +Nothing tempts my tears but tears +Omit, as incredible, such things as they do not understand +On all occasions to contradict and oppose +Only desire to become more wise, not more learned or eloquent +Passion of dandling and caressing infants scarcely born +Perfection: but I will not buy it so dear as it costs +Plato will have nobody marry before thirty +Prudent and just man may be intemperate and inconsistent +Puerile simplicities of our children +Shelter my own weakness under these great reputations +Socrates kept a confounded scolding wife +The authors, with whom I converse +There is no recompense becomes virtue +To do well where there was danger was the proper office +To whom no one is ill who can be good? +Turks have alms and hospitals for beasts +Vices will cling together, if a man have not a care +Virtue is much strengthened by combats +Virtue refuses facility for a companion + + + + +Dec 2002 The Essays of Montaigne, V11, 1877, Cotton +[MN#11][mn11v10.txt]3591 +BOOK THE SECOND.--CHAP. XIII. to XVII. +XIII. Of judging of the death of another. +XIV. That the mind hinders itself. +XV. That our desires are augmented by difficulty. +XVI. Of glory. +XVII. Of presumption. + +A generous heart ought not to belie its own thoughts +A man may play the fool in everything else, but not in poetry +Against my trifles you could say no more than I myself have said +Agitated betwixt hope and fear +All defence shows a face of war +Almanacs +An advantage in judgment we yield to none +Any old government better than change and alteration +Anything becomes foul when commended by the multitude +Appetite runs after that it has not +Armed parties (the true school of treason, inhumanity, robbery +Authority to be dissected by the vain fancies of men +Authority which a graceful presence and a majestic mien beget +Be on which side you will, you have as fair a game to play +Beauty of stature is the only beauty of men +Believing Heaven concerned at our ordinary actions +Better at speaking than writing. Motion and action animate word +Caesar's choice of death: "the shortest" +Ceremony forbids us to express by words things that are lawful +Content: more easily found in want than in abundance +Curiosity of knowing things has been given to man for a scourge +Defence allures attempt, and defiance provokes an enemy +Desire of riches is more sharpened by their use than by the need +Difficulty gives all things their estimation +Doubt whether those (old writings) we have be not the worst +Doubtful ills plague us worst +Endeavouring to be brief, I become obscure +Engaged in the avenues of old age, being already past forty +Every government has a god at the head of it +Executions rather whet than dull the edge of vices +Fear of the fall more fevers me than the fall itself +Folly to hazard that upon the uncertainty of augmenting it +For who ever thought he wanted sense? +Fortune rules in all things +Gentleman would play the fool to make a show of defence +Happen to do anything commendable, I attribute it to fortune +Having too good an opinion of our own worth +He should discern in himself, as well as in others +He who is only a good man that men may know it +How many worthy men have we known to survive their reputation +Humble out of pride +I am very glad to find the way beaten before me by others +I find myself here fettered by the laws of ceremony +I have no mind to die, but I have no objection to be dead +I have not a wit supple enough to evade a sudden question +I have nothing of my own that satisfies my judgment +I would be rich of myself, and not by borrowing +Ill luck is good for something +Imitating other men's natures, thou layest aside thy own +Immoderate either seeking or evading glory or reputation +Impunity pass with us for justice +It is not for outward show that the soul is to play its part +Knowledge of others, wherein the honour consists +Lessen the just value of things that I possess +License of judgments is a great disturbance to great affairs +Lose what I have a particular care to lock safe up +Loses more by defending his vineyard than if he gave it up. +More brave men been lost in occasions of little moment +More solicitous that men speak of us, than how they speak +My affection alters, my judgment does not +No way found to tranquillity that is good in common +Not being able to govern events, I govern myself +Not conceiving things otherwise than by this outward bark +Not for any profit, but for the honour of honesty itself +Nothing is more confident than a bad poet +Nothing that so poisons as flattery +Obedience is never pure nor calm in him who reasons and disputes +Occasions of the least lustre are ever the most dangerous +Of the fleeting years each steals something from me +Office of magnanimity openly and professedly to love and hate +Old age: applaud the past and condemn the present +One may be humble out of pride +Our will is more obstinate by being opposed +Overvalue things, because they are foreign, absent +Philopoemen: paying the penalty of my ugliness. +Pleasing all: a mark that can never be aimed at or hit +Poets +Possession begets a contempt of what it holds and rules +Prolong his life also prolonged and augmented his pain +Regret so honourable a post, where necessity must make them bold +Sense: no one who is not contented with his share +Setting too great a value upon ourselves +Setting too little a value upon others +She who only refuses, because 'tis forbidden, consents +Short of the foremost, but before the last. +Souls that are regular and strong of themselves are rare +Suicide: a morsel that is to be swallowed without chewing +Take all things at the worst, and to resolve to bear that worst +The age we live in produces but very indifferent things +The reward of a thing well done is to have done it +The satiety of living, inclines a man to desire to die +There is no reason that has not its contrary +They do not see my heart, they see but my countenance +Those who can please and hug themselves in what they do +Tis far beyond not fearing death to taste and relish it +To forbid us anything is to make us have a mind to't +Voice and determination of the rabble, the mother of ignorance +Vulgar reports and opinions that drive us on +We believe we do not believe +We consider our death as a very great thing +We have not the thousandth part of ancient writings +We have taught the ladies to blush +We set too much value upon ourselves +Were more ambitious of a great reputation than of a good one +What a man says should be what he thinks +What he did by nature and accident, he cannot do by design +What is more accidental than reputation? +What, shall so much knowledge be lost +Wiser who only know what is needful for them to know + + + + +Dec 2002 The Essays of Montaigne, V12, 1877, Cotton +[MN#12][mn12v10.txt]3592 +BOOK THE SECOND.--CHAP. XVIII. to XXXI. +XVIII. Of giving the lie. +XIX. Of liberty of conscience. +XX. That we taste nothing pure. +XXI. Against idleness. +XXII. Of Posting. +XXIII. Of ill means employed to a good end. +XXIV. Of the Roman grandeur. +XXV. Not to counterfeit being sick. +XXVI. Of thumbs. +XXVII. Cowardice the mother of cruelty. +XXVIII. All things have their season. +XXIX. Of virtue. +XXX. Of a monstrous child. +XXXI. Of anger. + +A man may always study, but he must not always go to school +Accursed be thou, as he that arms himself for fear of death +All things have their seasons, even good ones +All those who have authority to be angry in my family +"An emperor," said he, "must die standing" +Ancient Romans kept their youth always standing at school +And we suffer the ills of a long peace +Be not angry to no purpose +Best virtue I have has in it some tincture of vice +By resenting the lie we acquit ourselves of the fault +By the gods," said he, "if I was not angry, I would execute you +Children are amused with toys and men with words +Consent, and complacency in giving a man's self up to melancholy +Defend most the defects with which we are most tainted +Emperor Julian, surnamed the Apostate +Fortune sometimes seems to delight in taking us at our word +Greatest talkers, for the most part, do nothing to purpose +Have more wherewith to defray my journey, than I have way to go +Hearing a philosopher talk of military affairs +How much it costs him to do no worse +I need not seek a fool from afar; I can laugh at myself +Idleness, the mother of corruption +If a passion once prepossess and seize me, it carries me away +In sorrow there is some mixture of pleasure +Killing is good to frustrate an offence to come, not to revenge +Laws cannot subsist without mixture of injustice +Least end of a hair will serve to draw them into my discourse +Let us not seek our disease out of ourselves; 'tis in us +Look on death not only without astonishment but without care +Melancholy: Are there not some constitutions that feed upon it? +Most cruel people, and upon frivolous occasions, apt to cry. +No beast in the world so much to be feared by man as man +Our extremest pleasure has some sort of groaning +Our fancy does what it will, both with itself and us +Owe ourselves chiefly and mostly to ourselves +Petulant madness contends with itself +Rage it puts them to oppose silence and coldness to their fury +Rash and incessant scolding runs into custom +Revenge, which afterwards produces a series of new cruelties +See how flexible our reason is +Seeming anger, for the better governing of my house +Shake the truth of our Church by the vices of her ministers +Take my last leave of every place I depart from +The gods sell us all the goods they give us +The storm is only begot by a concurrence of angers +Though nobody should read me, have I wasted time +Tis said of Epimenides, that he always prophesied backward. +Tis then no longer correction, but revenge +Upon the precipice, 'tis no matter who gave you the push +When will this man be wise," said he, "if he is yet learning? +When you see me moved first, let me alone, right or wrong +Young are to make their preparations, the old to enjoy them + + + + +Dec 2002 The Essays of Montaigne, V13, 1877, Cotton +[MN#13][mn13v10.txt]3593 +BOOK THE SECOND.--CHAP. XXXII. to XXXVII. +XXXII. Defence of Seneca and Plutarch. +XXXIII. The story of Spurina. +XXXIV. Observation on the means to carry on a war according to Julius + Caesar. +XXXV. Of three good women. +XXXVI. Of the most excellent men. +XXXVII. Of the resemblance of children to their fathers. + +Accusing all others of ignorance and imposition +Affection towards their husbands, (not)until they have lost them +Anything of value in him, let him make it appear in his conduct +As if impatience were of itself a better remedy than patience +Assurance they give us of the certainty of their drugs +At least, if they do no good, they will do no harm +Attribute to itself; all the happy successes that happen +Best part of a captain to know how to make use of occasions +Burnt and roasted for opinions taken upon trust from others +Commit themselves to the common fortune +Crafty humility that springs from presumption +Did not approve all sorts of means to obtain a victory +Disease had arrived at its period or an effect of chance? +Dissentient and tumultuary drugs +Do not much blame them for making their advantage of our folly +Doctors: more felicity and duration in their own lives? +Doctrine much more intricate and fantastic than the thing itself +Drugs being in its own nature an enemy to our health +Even the very promises of physic are incredible in themselves +Fathers conceal their affection from their children +He who provides for all, provides for nothing +Health depends upon the vanity and falsity of their promises +Health is altered and corrupted by their frequent prescriptions +Health to be worth purchasing by all the most painful cauteries +Homer: The only words that have motion and action +I am towards the bottom of the barrel +I dare not promise but that I may one day be so much a fool +I see no people so soon sick as those who take physic +Indiscreet desire of a present cure, that so blind us +Intended to get a new husband than to lament the old +Let it alone a little +Life should be cut off in the sound and living part +Live a quite contrary sort of life to what they prescribe others +Live, not so long as they please, but as long as they ought +Llaying the fault upon the patient, by such frivolous reasons +Long a voyage I should at last run myself into some disadvantage +Making their advantage of our folly, for most men do the same +Man may with less trouble adapt himself to entire abstinence +Man runs a very great hazard in their hands (of physicians) +Mark of singular good nature to preserve old age +Men must embark, and not deliberate, upon high enterprises +Mercenaries who would receive any (pay) +Moderation is a virtue that gives more work than suffering +More valued a victory obtained by counsel than by force +Most men do not so much believe as they acquiesce and permit +Never any man knew so much, and spake so little +No danger with them, though they may do us no good +No other foundation or support than public abuse +No physic that has not something hurtful in it +Noble and rich, where examples of virtue are rarely lodged +Obstinacy is the sister of constancy +Order a purge for your brain, it will there be much better +Ordinances it (Medicine)foists upon us +Passion has a more absolute command over us than reason +Pay very strict usury who did not in due time pay the principal +People are willing to be gulled in what they desire +Physician's "help", which is very often an obstacle +Physicians are not content to deal only with the sick +Physicians fear men should at any time escape their authority +Physicians were the only men who might lie at pleasure +Physicians: earth covers their failures +Plato said of the Egyptians, that they were all physicians +Pure cowardice that makes our belief so pliable +Recommendation of strangeness, rarity, and dear purchase +Send us to the better air of some other country +Should first have mended their breeches +Smile upon us whilst we are alive +So austere and very wise countenance and carriage :of physicians +So much are men enslaved to their miserable being +Solon said "that eating was physic against the malady hunger +Strangely suspect all this merchandise: medical care +Studies, to teach me to do, and not to write +Such a recipe as they will not take themselves +That he could neither read nor swim +The Babylonians carried their sick into the public square +They (good women) are not by the dozen, as every one knows +They have not one more invention left wherewith to amuse us +They juggle and trifle in all their discourses at our expense +They never loved them till dead +Tis in some sort a kind of dying to avoid the pain of living well +Tis not the number of men, but the number of good men +Tis there she talks plain French +To be, not to seem +To keep me from dying is not in your power +Two opinions alike, no more than two hairs +Tyrannical authority physicians usurp over poor creatures +Venture it upon his neighbour, if he will let him +venture the making ourselves better without any danger +We confess our ignorance in many things +We do not easily accept the medicine we understand +What are become of all our brave philosophical precepts? +What we have not seen, we are forced to receive from other hands +Whatever was not ordinary diet, was instead of a drug +Whimpering is offensive to the living and vain to the dead +Who does not boast of some rare recipe +Who ever saw one physician approve of another's prescription +Willingly give them leave to laugh after we are dead +With being too well I am about to die +Wont to give others their life, and not to receive it +You may indeed make me die an ill death + + + + +Dec 2002 The Essays of Montaigne, V14, 1877, Cotton +[MN#14][mn14v10.txt]3594 +BOOK THE THIRD.--CHAP. I. to IV. +I. Of Profit and Honesty. +II. Of Repentance. +III. Of Three Commerces. +IV. Of Diversion. + +A little thing will turn and divert us +Abominate that incidental repentance which old age brings +Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face +Always be parading their pedantic science +Am as jealous of my repose as of my authority +Anger and hatred are beyond the duty of justice +Beast of company, as the ancient said, but not of the herd +Books go side by side with me in my whole course +Books have many charming qualities to such as know how to choose +But ill proves the honour and beauty of an action by its utility +Childish ignorance of many very ordinary things +Common consolation, discourages and softens me +Consoles himself upon the utility and eternity of his writings +Deceit maintains and supplies most men's employment +Diverting the opinions and conjectures of the people +Dying appears to him a natural and indifferent accident +Every place of retirement requires a walk +Fault will be theirs for having consulted me +Few men have been admired by their own domestics +Follies do not make me laugh, it is our wisdom which does +Folly to put out their own light and shine by a borrowed lustre +For fear of the laws and report of men +Gently to bear the inconstancy of a lover +Give but the rind of my attention +Grief provokes itself +He may employ his passion, who can make no use of his reason +He may well go a foot, they say, who leads his horse in his hand +I do not consider what it is now, but what it was then +I find no quality so easy to counterfeit as devotion +I lay no great stress upon my opinions; or of others +I look upon death carelessly when I look upon it universally +I receive but little advice, I also give but little +I speak truth, not so much as I would, but as much as I dare +I understand my men even by their silence and smiles +Idleness is to me a very painful labour +Imagne the mighty will not abase themselves so much as to live +In ordinary friendships I am somewhat cold and shy +Leaving nothing unsaid, how home and bitter soever +Library: Tis there that I am in my kingdom +Malice sucks up the greatest part of its own venom +Malicious kind of justice +Miserable kind of remedy, to owe one's health to one's disease! +Miserable, who has not at home where to be by himself +More supportable to be always alone than never to be so +My fancy does not go by itself, as when my legs move it +My thoughts sleep if I sit still +Nearest to the opinions of those with whom they have to do +No evil is honourable; but death is honourable +No man is free from speaking foolish things +Noise of arms deafened the voice of laws +None of the sex, let her be as ugly as the devil thinks lovable +Obliged to his age for having weaned him from pleasure +Open speaking draws out discoveries, like wine and love +Perfect men as they are, they are yet simply men. +Preachers very often work more upon their auditory than reasons +Public weal requires that men should betray, and lie +Ridiculous desire of riches when we have lost the use of them +Rowers who so advance backward +Season a denial with asperity, suspense, or favour +So that I could have said no worse behind their backs +Socrates: According to what a man can +Studied, when young, for ostentation, now for diversion +Swim in troubled waters without fishing in them +Take a pleasure in being uninterested in other men's affairs +The good opinion of the vulgar is injurious +The sick man has not to complain who has his cure in his sleeve +The virtue of the soul does not consist in flying high +Tis an exact life that maintains itself in due order in private +Tis not the cause, but their interest, that inflames them +Titillation of ill-natured pleasure in seeing others suffer +To be a slave, incessantly to be led by the nose by one's self +Truly he, with a great effort will shortly say a mighty trifle +We do not so much forsake vices as we change them +We much more aptly imagine an artisan upon his close-stool +What more? they lie with their lovers learnedly +What need have they of anything but to live beloved and honoured +Wisdom is folly that does not accommodate itself to the common +You must let yourself down to those with whom you converse + + + + +Dec 2002 The Essays of Montaigne, V15, 1877, Cotton +[MN#15][mn15v10.txt]3595 +BOOK THE THIRD.--CHAP. V. +V. Upon Some verses of Virgil. + +A gallant man does not give over his pursuit for being refused +A lady could not boast of her chastity who was never tempted +Appetite is more sharp than one already half-glutted by the eyes +Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age +Certain other things that people hide only to show them +Chiefly knew himself to be mortal by this act +Dearness is a good sauce to meat +Each amongst you has made somebody cuckold +Eat your bread with the sauce of a more pleasing imagination +Evade this tormenting and unprofitable knowledge +Feminine polity has a mysterious procedure +Few men have made a wife of a mistress, who have not repented it +First thing to be considered in love matters: a fitting time +Friend, the hook will not stick in such soft cheese +Give the ladies a cruel contempt of our natural furniture +Guess at our meaning under general and doubtful terms +Hate all sorts of obligation and restraint +Have ever had a great respect for her I loved +Have no other title left me to these things but by the ears +Heat and stir up their imagination, and then we find fault +Husbands hate their wives only because they themselves do wrong +I am apt to dream that I dream +I do not say that 'tis well said, but well thought +I had much rather die than live upon charity +I was always superstitiously afraid of giving offence +If I am talking my best, whoever interrupts me, stops me +If they can only be kind to us out of pity +In everything else a man may keep some decorum +In those days, the tailor took measure of it +Inclination to variety and novelty common to us both +Inconsiderate excuses are a kind of self-accusation +Interdiction incites, and who are more eager, being forbidden +It happens, as with cages, the birds without despair to get in +Jealousy: no remedy but flight or patience +Judgment of duty principally lies in the will +Ladies are no sooner ours, than we are no more theirs +Let a man take which course he will," said he; "he will repent" +Let us not be ashamed to speak what we are not ashamed to think +Love is the appetite of generation by the mediation of beauty +Love shamefully and dishonestly cured by marriage +Love them the less for our own faults +Love, full, lively, and sharp; a pleasure inflamed by difficulty +Man must approach his wife with prudence and temperance +Marriage rejects the company and conditions of love +Men make them (the rules) without their (women's) help +Misfortunes that only hurt us by being known +Modesty is a foolish virtue in an indigent person (Homer) +Most of my actions are guided by example, not by choice +Neither continency nor virtue where there are no opposing desire +No doing more difficult than that not doing, nor more active +O wretched men, whose pleasures are a crime +O, the furious advantage of opportunity! +Observed the laws of marriage, than I either promised or expect +One may more boldly dare what nobody thinks you dare +Order it so that your virtue may conquer your misfortune +Plato says, that the gods made man for their sport +Pleasure of telling (a pleasure little inferior to that of doing +Priest shall on the wedding-day open the way to the bride +Prudent man, when I imagine him in this posture +Rage compelled to excuse itself by a pretence of good-will +Rather be a less while old than be old before I am really so +Represented her a little too passionate for a married Venus +Revenge more wounds our children than it heals us +Sex: To put fools and wise men, beasts and us, on a level +Sharps and sweets of marriage, are kept secret by the wise +Sins that make the least noise are the worst +Sleep suffocates and suppresses the faculties of the soul +Sufficiently covered by their virtue without any other robe +The best authors too much humble and discourage me +The impulse of nature, which is a rough counsellor +The privilege of the mind to rescue itself from old age +Their disguises and figures only serve to cosen fools +There is no allurement like modesty, if it be not rude +These sleepy, sluggish sort of men are often the most dangerous +They better conquer us by flying +They buy a cat in a sack +They err as much who too much forbear Venus +They must become insensible and invisible to satisfy us. +They who would fight custom with grammar are triflers +Those which we fear the least are, peradventure, most to be fear +Those within (marriage) despair of getting out +Tis all swine's flesh, varied by sauces +To what friend dare you intrust your griefs +Twas a happy marriage betwixt a blind wife and a deaf husband +Unjust judges of their actions, as they are of ours +Very idea we invent for their chastity is ridiculous +Virtue is a pleasant and gay quality +We ask most when we bring least +We say a good marriage because no one says to the contrary. +When jealousy seizes these poor souls +When their eyes give the lie to their tongue +Who escapes being talked of at the same rate +Wisdom has its excesses, and has no less need of moderation +Would in this affair have a man a little play the servant + + + + +Dec 2002 The Essays of Montaigne, V16, 1877, Cotton +[MN#16][mn16v10.txt]3596 +BOOK THE THIRD.--CHAP. VI. to VIII. +VI. Of Coaches. +VII. Of the Inconvenience of Greatness. +VIII. Of the Art of Conference. + +A hundred more escape us than ever come to our knowledge +A man must have courage to fear +A man never speaks of himself without loss +A man's accusations of himself are always believed +Agitation has usurped the place of reason +All judgments in gross are weak and imperfect +Any argument if it be carried on with method +Apprenticeships that are to be served beforehand +Arrogant ignorance +Avoid all magnificences that will in a short time be forgotten +Being as impatient of commanding as of being commanded +Defer my revenge to another and better time +Desires, that still increase as they are fulfilled +Detest in others the defects which are more manifest in us +Disdainful, contemplative, serious and grave as the ass +Do not, nevertheless, always believe myself +Events are a very poor testimony of our worth and parts. +Every abridgment of a good book is a foolish abridgment +Fault not to discern how far a man's worth extends +Folly and absurdity are not to be cured by bare admonition +Folly satisfied with itself than any reason can reasonably be. +Folly than to be moved and angry at the follies of the world +Give us history, more as they receive it than as they believe it +I every day hear fools say things that are not foolish +I hail and caress truth in what quarter soever I find it +I hate all sorts of tyranny, both in word and deed +I love stout expressions amongst gentle men +I was too frightened to be ill +If it be the writer's wit or borrowed from some other +"It was what I was about to say; it was just my idea +Ignorance does not offend me, but the foppery of it +It is not a book to read, 'tis a book to study and learn +Judge by justice, and choose men by reason +Knock you down with the authority of their experience +Learning improves fortunes enough, but not minds +Liberality at the expense of others +Malice must be employed to correct this arrogant ignorance +Man must have a care not to do his master so great service +Mix railing, indiscretion, and fury in his disputations +Most men are rich in borrowed sufficiency +My humour is unfit either to speak or write for beginners +My reason is not obliged to bow and bend; my knees are +Never oppose them either by word or sign, how false or absurd +New World: sold it opinions and our arts at a very dear rate +Obstinancy and heat in argument are the surest proofs of folly +One must first know what is his own and what is not +Our knowledge, which is a wretched foundation +Passion has already confounded his judgment +Pinch the secret strings of our imperfections +Practical Jokes: Tis unhandsome to fight in play +Presumptive knowledge by silence +Silent mien procured the credit of prudence and capacity +Spectators can claim no interest in the honour and pleasure +Study of books is a languishing and feeble motion +The cause of truth ought to be the common cause +The event often justifies a very foolish conduct +The ignorant return from the combat full of joy and triumph +The very name Liberality sounds of Liberty +There are some upon whom their rich clothes weep +There is no merchant that always gains +There is nothing single and rare in respect of nature +They have heard, they have seen, they have done so and so +They have not the courage to suffer themselves to be corrected +Tis impossible to deal fairly with a fool +To fret and vex at folly, as I do, is folly itself +Transferring of money from the right owners to strangers +Tutor to the ignorance and folly of the first we meet +Tyrannic sourness not to endure a form contrary to one's own +Universal judgments that I see so common, signify nothing +We are not to judge of counsels by events +We do not correct the man we hang; we correct others by him +We neither see far forward nor far backward +What he laughed at, being alone?--That I do laugh alone! +Whilst thou wast silent, thou seemedst to be some great thing +Who has once been a very fool, will never after be very wise +Wide of the mark in judging of their own works +Wise may learn more of fools, than fools can of the wise + + + + +Dec 2002 The Essays of Montaigne, V17, 1877, Cotton +[MN#17][mn17v10.txt]3597 +BOOK THE THIRD.--CHAP. IX. +IX. Of Vanity. + +A man may govern himself well who cannot govern others so +A man should diffuse joy, but, as much as he can, smother grief +A well-bred man is a compound man +All over-nice solicitude about riches smells of avarice +Always complaining is the way never to be lamented +Appetite comes to me in eating +Better to be alone than in foolish and troublesome company +By suspecting them, have given them a title to do ill +Change only gives form to injustice and tyranny +Civil innocence is measured according to times and places +Conclude the depth of my sense by its obscurity +Concluding no beauty can be greater than what they see +Confession enervates reproach and disarms slander +Counterfeit condolings of pretenders +Crates did worse, who threw himself into the liberty of poverty +Desire of travel +Enough to do to comfort myself, without having to console others +Friend, it is not now time to play with your nails +Gain to change an ill condition for one that is uncertain +Giving is an ambitious and authoritative quality +Good does not necessarily succeed evil; another evil may succeed +Greedy humour of new and unknown things +He must fool it a little who would not be deemed wholly a fool +I always find superfluity superfluous +I am disgusted with the world I frequent +I am hard to be got out, but being once upon the road +I am very willing to quit the government of my house +I content myself with enjoying the world without bustle +I enter into confidence with dying +I grudge nothing but care and trouble +I hate poverty equally with pain +I scorn to mend myself by halves +I write my book for few men and for few years +Justice als takes cognisance of those who glean after the reaper +Known evil was ever more supportable than one that was, new +Laws (of Plato on travel), which forbids it after threescore +Liberty and laziness, the qualities most predominant in me +Liberty of poverty +Liberty to lean, but not to lay our whole weight upon others +Little affairs most disturb us +Men as often commend as undervalue me beyond reason +Methinks I promise it, if I but say it +My mind is easily composed at distance +Neither be a burden to myself nor to any other +No use to this age, I throw myself back upon that other +Nothing falls where all falls +Nothing presses so hard upon a state as innovation +Obstinate in growing worse +Occupy our thoughts about the general, and about universal cause +One may regret better times, but cannot fly from the present +Opposition and contradiction entertain and nourish them +Our qualities have no title but in comparison +Preferring the universal and common tie to all national ties +Proceed so long as there shall be ink and paper in the world +Satisfied and pleased with and in themselves +Settled my thoughts to live upon less than I have +Some wives covetous indeed, but very few that are good managers +That looks a nice well-made shoe to you +There can be no pleasure to me without communication +Think myself no longer worth my own care +Tis for youth to subject itself to common opinions +Tis more laudable to obey the bad than the good +Titles of my chapters do not always comprehend the whole matter +Travel with not only a necessary, but a handsome equipage +Turn up my eyes to heaven to return thanks, than to crave +Weigh, as wise: men should, the burden of obligation +What sort of wine he liked the best: "That of another" +What step ends the near and what step begins the remote +When I travel I have nothing to care for but myself +Wise man to keep a curbing hand upon the impetus of friendship +World where loyalty of one's own children is unknown +Wretched and dangerous thing to depend upon others +You have lost a good captain, to make of him a bad general + + + + +Dec 2002 The Essays of Montaigne, V18, 1877, Cotton +[MN#18][mn18v10.txt]3598 +BOOK THE THIRD.--CHAP. X. to XII. +X. Of Managing the Will. +XI. Of Cripples. +XII. Of Physiognomy. + +A man should abhor lawsuits as much as he may +A person's look is but a feeble warranty +Accept all things we are not able to refute +Admiration is the foundation of all philosophy +Advantageous, too, a little to recede from one's right +All I say is by way of discourse, and nothing by way of advice +Apt to promise something less than what I am able to do +As if anything were so common as ignorance +Authority of the number and antiquity of the witnesses +Best test of truth is the multitude of believers in a crowd +Books have not so much served me for instruction as exercise +Books of things that were never either studied or understood +Condemn the opposite affirmation equally +Courageous in death, not because his soul is immortal--Socrates +Death conduces more to birth and augmentation than to loss +Decree that says, "The court understands nothing of the matter +Deformity of the first cruelty makes me abhor all imitation +Enters lightly into a quarrel is apt to go as lightly out of it +Establish this proposition by authority and huffing +Extend their anger and hatred beyond the dispute in question +Fabric goes forming and piling itself up from hand to hand +Fortune heaped up five or six such-like incidents +Hard to resolve a man's judgment against the common opinions +Haste trips up its own heels, fetters, and stops itself +He cannot be good, seeing he is not evil even to the wicked +He who stops not the start will never be able to stop the course +"How many things," said he, "I do not desire!" +How much easier is it not to enter in than it is to get out +I am a little tenderly distrustful of things that I wish +I am no longer in condition for any great change +I am not to be cuffed into belief +I am plain and heavy, and stick to the solid and the probable +I do not judge opinions by years +I ever justly feared to raise my head too high +I would as willingly be lucky as wise +If I stand in need of anger and inflammation, I borrow it +If they hear no noise, they think men sleep +Impose them upon me as infallible +Inconveniences that moderation brings (in civil war) +Lend himself to others, and only give himself to himself +Let not us seek illusions from without and unknown +"Little learning is needed to form a sound mind" --Seneca +Long toleration begets habit; habit, consent and imitation +Men are not always to rely upon the personal confessions +Merciful to the man, but not to his wickedness--Aristotle +Miracles and strange events have concealed themselves from me +My humour is no friend to tumult +Nosegay of foreign flowers, having furnished nothing of my own +Not believe from one, I should not believe from a hundred +Nothing is so supple and erratic as our understanding +Number of fools so much exceeds the wise +Opinions we have are taken on authority and trust +Others adore all of their own side +Pitiful ways and expedients to the jugglers of the law +Prepare ourselves against the preparations of death +Profession of knowledge and their immeasurable self-conceit +Quiet repose and a profound sleep without dreams +Reasons often anticipate the effect +Refusin to justify, excuse, or explain myself +Remotest witness knows more about it than those who were nearest +Restoring what has been lent us, wit usury and accession +Richer than we think we are; but we are taught to borrow +Right of command appertains to the beautiful-Aristotle +Rude and quarrelsome flatly to deny a stated fact +Suffer my judgment to be made captive by prepossession +Swell and puff up their souls, and their natural way of speaking +Taught to be afraid of professing our ignorance +The last informed is better persuaded than the first +The mind grows costive and thick in growing old +The particular error first makes the public error +Their souls seek repose in agitation +They gently name them, so they patiently endure them (diseases) +Those oppressed with sorrow sometimes surprised by a smile +Threats of the day of judgment +Tis better to lean towards doubt than assurance--Augustine +Tis no matter; it may be of use to some others +To forbear doing is often as generous as to do +To kill men, a clear and strong light is required +Too contemptible to be punished +True liberty is to be able to do what a man will with himself +Vast distinction betwixt devotion and conscience +We have naturally a fear of pain, but not of death +What did I say? that I have? no, Chremes, I had +Who discern no riches but in pomp and show +Whoever will be cured of ignorance must confess it +Would have every one in his party blind or a blockhead +Wrong the just side when they go about to assist it with fraud +Yet at least for ambition's sake, let us reject ambition + + + + +Dec 2002 The Essays of Montaigne, V19, 1877, Cotton +[MN#19][mn19v10.txt]3599 +BOOK THE THIRD.--CHAP. XIII. +XIII. Of Experience. + + +A well-governed stomach is a great part of liberty +Affirmation and obstinacy are express signs of want of wit +Alexander said, that the end of his labour was to labour +All actions equally become and equally honour a wise man +As we were formerly by crimes, so we are now overburdened by law +At the most, but patch you up, and prop you a little +better have none at all than to have them in so prodigious a num +Both kings and philosophers go to stool +Cannot stand the liberty of a friend's advice +Cleave to the side that stood most in need of her +Condemnations have I seen more criminal than the crimes +Customs and laws make justice +Dignify our fopperies when we commit them to the press +Diversity of medical arguments and opinions embraces all +Every man thinks himself sufficiently intelligent +Excuse myself from knowing anything which enslaves me to others +First informed who were to be the other guests +Go out of ourselves, because we know not how there to reside +Got up but an inch upon the shoulders of the last, but one +Hate remedies that are more troublesome than the disease itself +He who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears +How many and many times he has been mistaken in his own judgment +"I have done nothing to-day." What? have you not lived? +If it be a delicious medicine, take it +Intelligence is required to be able to know that a man knows not +Intemperance is the pest of pleasure +Language: obscure and unintelligible in wills and contracts +Last death will kill but a half or a quarter of a man +Law: breeder of altercation and division +Laws keep up their credit, not for being just--but as laws +Lay the fault on the voices of those who speak to me +Learn my own debility and the treachery of my understanding +Life of Caesar has no greater example for us than our own +Long sittings at table both trouble me and do me harm +Made all medicinal conclusions largely give way to my pleasure +Man after who held out his pulse to a physician was a fool +Man must learn that he is nothing but a fool +More ado to interpret interpretations +More books upon books than upon any other subject +Never did two men make the same judgment of the same thing +None that less keep their promise(than physicians) +Nor get children but before I sleep, nor get them standing +Nothing so grossly, nor so ordinarily faulty, as the laws +Our justice presents to us but one hand +Perpetual scolding of his wife (of Socrates) +Physician: pass through all the diseases he pretends to cure +Plato angry at excess of sleeping than at excess of drinking +Plato: lawyers and physicians are bad institutions of a country +Prolong your misery an hour or two +Put us into a way of extending and diversifying difficulties +Resolved to bring nothing to it but expectation and patience +Scratching is one of nature's sweetest gratifications +Seek the quadrature of the circle, even when on their wives +So weak and languishing, as not to have even wishing left to him +Soft, easy, and wholesome pillow is ignorance and incuriosity +Study makes me sensible how much I have to learn +Style wherewith men establish religions and laws +Subdividing these subtilties we teach men to increase their doub +That we may live, we cease to live +The mean is best +There is none of us who would not be worse than kings +Thinking nothing done, if anything remained to be done +Thinks nothing profitable that is not painful +Thou diest because thou art living +Tis so I melt and steal away from myself +Truth itself has not the privilege to be spoken at all times +Truth, that for being older it is none the wiser +We must learn to suffer what we cannot evade +We ought to grant free passage to diseases +Whoever will call to mind the excess of his past anger +Why do we not imitate the Roman architecture? +Wrangling arrogance, wholly believing and trusting in itself +Yet do we find any end of the need of interpretating? + + + + +Dec 2002 The Complete Essays of Montaigne, Cotton +[MN#20][mn20v10.txt]3600 +Entire Project Gutenberg Montaigne Letters and Essays ed. 1877 + +BOOK THE FIRST: +I. That men by various ways arrive at the same end. +II. Of Sorrow. +III. That our affections carry themselves beyond us . +IV. That the soul discharges her passions upon false objects, where + the true are wanting. +V. Whether the governor of a place besieged ought himself to go out + to parley. +VI. That the hour of parley is dangerous. +VII. That the intention is judge of our actions +VIII. Of idleness. +IX. Of liars. +X. Of quick or slow speech. +XI. Of prognostications. +XII. Of constancy. +XIII. The ceremony of the interview of princes. +XIV. That men are justly punished for being obstinate in the defence + of a fort that is not in reason to be defended. +XV. Of the punishment of cowardice. +XVI. A proceeding of some ambassadors. +XVII. Of fear. +XVIII. That men are not to judge of our happiness till after death. +XIX. That to study philosophy is to learn to die. +XX. Of the force of imagination. +XXI. That the profit of one man is the damage of another. +XXII. Of custom, and that we should not easily change a law received . +XXIII. Various events from the same counsel. +XXIV. Of pedantry. +XXV. Of the education of children. +XXVI. That it is folly to measure truth and error by our own capacity. +XXVII. Of friendship. +XXVIII. Nine-and-twenty sonnets of Estienne de la Boetie. +XXIX. Of moderation. +XXX. Of cannibals, +XXXI. That a man is soberly to judge of the divine ordinances. +XXXII. That we are to avoid pleasures, even at the expense of + life. +XXXIII. That fortune is oftentimes observed to act by the rule of reason. +XXXIV. Of one defect in our government. +XXXV. Of the custom of wearing clothes +XXXVI. Of Cato the Younger. +XXXVII. That we laugh and cry for the same thing. +XXXVIII.Of solitude. +XXXIX. A consideration upon Cicero, +XL. That the relish of good and evil depends in a great measure upon + the opinion we have of them. +XLI. Not to communicate a man's honour. +XLII. Of the inequality amongst us. +XLIII. Of sumptuary laws. +XLIV. Of sleep. +XLV. Of the battle of Dreux. +XLVI. Of names. +XLVII. Of the uncertainty of our judgment. +XLVIII. Of war-horses, or destriers. +XLIX. Of ancient customs. +L. Of Democritus and Heraclitus. +LI. Of the vanity of words. +LII. Of the parsimony of the Ancients. +LIII. Of a saying of Caesar. +LIV. Of vain subtleties. +LV. Of smells. +LVI. Of prayers. +LVII. Of age. + +BOOK THE SECOND: +I. Of the inconstancy of our actions. +II. Of drunkenness. +III. A custom of the Isle of Cea. +IV. To-morrow's a new day. +V. Of conscience. +VI. Use makes perfect. +VII. Of recompenses of honour. +VIII. Of the affection of fathers to their children. +IX. Of the arms of the Parthians. +X. Of books. +XI. Of cruelty. +XII. Apology for Raimond de Sebonde (Not included) +XIII. Of judging of the death of another. +XIV. That the mind hinders itself. +XV. That our desires are augmented by difficulty. +XVI. Of glory. +XVII. Of presumption. +XVIII. Of giving the lie. +XIX. Of liberty of conscience. +XX. That we taste nothing pure. +XXI. Against idleness. +XXII. Of Posting. +XXIII. Of ill means employed to a good end. +XXIV. Of the Roman grandeur. +XXV. Not to counterfeit being sick. +XXVI. Of thumbs. +XXVII. Cowardice the mother of cruelty. +XXVIII. All things have their season. +XXIX. Of virtue. +XXX. Of a monstrous child. +XXXI. Of anger. +XXXII. Defence of Seneca and Plutarch. +XXXIII. The story of Spurina. +XXXIV. Observation on the means to carry on a war according to Julius + Caesar. +XXXV. Of three good women. +XXXVI. Of the most excellent men. +XXXVII. Of the resemblance of children to their fathers. + +BOOK THE THIRD: +I. Of Profit and Honesty. +II. Of Repentance. +III. Of Three Commerces. +IV. Of Diversion. +V. Upon Some verses of Virgil. +VI. Of Coaches. +VII. Of the Inconvenience of Greatness. +VIII. Of the Art of Conference. +IX. Of Vanity. +X. Of Managing the Will. +XI. Of Cripples. +XII. Of Physiognomy. +XIII. Of Experience. + +[Inserting a few words of any of these 'Pointers' into your word +processor's 'Find' or 'Search' program should take you directly to its +paragraph in the text. If you get one of those irritating "Not Found" +messages, try another selection of words from the bookmark--on occasion +I have had to abbreviated or change the quotation so that it would fit, +or the text may have a 'Hard Return' in the middle of the quotation which +your 'Search' program sometimes will reject. D.W.] + +A child should not be brought up in his mother's lap +A gallant man does not give over his pursuit for being refused +A generous heart ought not to belie its own thoughts +A hundred more escape us than ever come to our knowledge +A lady could not boast of her chastity who was never tempted +A little cheese when a mind to make a feast +A little thing will turn and divert us +A man may always study, but he must not always go to school +A man may govern himself well who cannot govern others so +A man may play the fool in everything else, but not in poetry +A man must either imitate the vicious or hate them +A man must have courage to fear +A man never speaks of himself without loss +A man should abhor lawsuits as much as he may +A man should diffuse joy, but, as much as he can, smother grief +A man's accusations of himself are always believed +A parrot would say as much as that +A person's look is but a feeble warranty +A well-bred man is a compound man +A well-governed stomach is a great part of liberty +A word ill taken obliterates ten years' merit +Abhorrence of the patient are necessary circumstances +Abominate that incidental repentance which old age brings +Accept all things we are not able to refute +Accommodated my subject to my strength +Accursed be thou, as he that arms himself for fear of death +Accusing all others of ignorance and imposition +Acquiesce and submit to truth +Acquire by his writings an immortal life +Addict thyself to the study of letters +Addresses his voyage to no certain, port +Admiration is the foundation of all philosophy +Advantageous, too, a little to recede from one's right +Advise to choose weapons of the shortest sort +Affect words that are not of current use +Affection towards their husbands, (not) until they have lost them +Affirmation and obstinacy are express signs of want of wit +Affright people with the very mention of death +Against my trifles you could say no more than I myself have said +Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face +Agesilaus, what he thought most proper for boys to learn? +Agitated betwixt hope and fear +Agitation has usurped the place of reason +Alexander said, that the end of his labour was to labour +All actions equally become and equally honour a wise man +All apprentices when we come to it (death) +All defence shows a face of war +All I aim at is, to pass my time at my ease +All I say is by way of discourse, and nothing by way of advice +All judgments in gross are weak and imperfect +All over-nice solicitude about riches smells of avarice +All things have their seasons, even good ones +All think he has yet twenty good years to come +All those who have authority to be angry in my family +Almanacs +Always be parading their pedantic science +Always complaining is the way never to be lamented +Always the perfect religion +Am as jealous of my repose as of my authority +An advantage in judgment we yield to none +"An emperor," said he, "must die standing" +An ignorance that knowledge creates and begets +Ancient Romans kept their youth always standing at school +And hate him so as you were one day to love him +And we suffer the ills of a long peace +Anger and hatred are beyond the duty of justice +Any argument if it be carried on with method +Any old government better than change and alteration +Any one may deprive us of life; no one can deprive us of death +Anything appears greatest to him that never knew a greater +Anything becomes foul when commended by the multitude +Anything of value in him, let him make it appear in his conduct +Appetite comes to me in eating +Appetite is more sharp than one already half-glutted by the eyes +Appetite runs after that it has not +Appetite to read more, than glutted with that we have +Applaud his judgment than commend his knowledge +Apprenticeship and a resemblance of death +Apprenticeships that are to be served beforehand +Apt to promise something less than what I am able to do +Archer that shoots over, misses as much as he that falls short +Armed parties (the true school of treason, inhumanity, robbery +Arrogant ignorance +Art that could come to the knowledge of but few persons +"Art thou not ashamed," said he to him, "to sing so well?" +Arts of persuasion, to insinuate it into our minds +As great a benefit to be without (children) +As if anything were so common as ignorance +As if impatience were of itself a better remedy than patience +As we were formerly by crimes, so we are now overburdened by law +Ashamed to lay out as much thought and study upon it +Assurance they give us of the certainty of their drugs +At least, if they do no good, they will do no harm +At the most, but patch you up, and prop you a little +Attribute facility of belief to simplicity and ignorance +Attribute to itself; all the happy successes that happen +Authority of the number and antiquity of the witnesses +Authority to be dissected by the vain fancies of men +Authority which a graceful presence and a majestic mien beget +Avoid all magnificences that will in a short time be forgotten +Away with that eloquence that enchants us with itself +Away with this violence! away with this compulsion! +Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age +Be not angry to no purpose +Be on which side you will, you have as fair a game to play +Bears well a changed fortune, acting both parts equally well +Beast of company, as the ancient said, but not of the herd +Beauty of stature is the only beauty of men +Because the people know so well how to obey +Become a fool by too much wisdom +Being as impatient of commanding as of being commanded +Being dead they were then by one day happier than he +Being over-studious, we impair our health and spoil our humour +Belief compared to the impression of a seal upon the soul +Believing Heaven concerned at our ordinary actions +Best part of a captain to know how to make use of occasions +Best test of truth is the multitude of believers in a crowd +Best virtue I have has in it some tincture of vice +Better at speaking than writing--Motion and action animate word +better have none at all than to have them in so prodigious a num +Better to be alone than in foolish and troublesome company +Blemishes of the great naturally appear greater +Books go side by side with me in my whole course +Books have many charming qualities to such as know how to choose +Books have not so much served me for instruction as exercise +Books I read over again, still smile upon me with fresh novelty +Books of things that were never either studied or understood +Both himself and his posterity declared ignoble, taxable +Both kings and philosophers go to stool +Burnt and roasted for opinions taken upon trust from others +Business to-morrow +But ill proves the honour and beauty of an action by its utility +But it is not enough that our education does not spoil us +By resenting the lie we acquit ourselves of the fault +By suspecting them, have given them a title to do ill +By the gods," said he, "if I was not angry, I would execute you +By the misery of this life, aiming at bliss in another +Caesar: he would be thought an excellent engineer to boot +Caesar's choice of death: "the shortest" +Can neither keep nor enjoy anything with a good grace +Cannot stand the liberty of a friend's advice +Carnal appetites only supported by use and exercise +Cato said: So many servants, so many enemies +Ceremony forbids us to express by words things that are lawful +Certain other things that people hide only to show them +Change is to be feared +Change of fashions +Change only gives form to injustice and tyranny +Cherish themselves most where they are most wrong +Chess: this idle and childish game +Chiefly knew himself to be mortal by this act +Childish ignorance of many very ordinary things +Children are amused with toys and men with words +Cicero: on fame +Civil innocence is measured according to times and places +Cleave to the side that stood most in need of her +cloak on one shoulder, my cap on one side, a stocking disordered +College: a real house of correction of imprisoned youth +Coming out of the same hole +Commit themselves to the common fortune +Common consolation, discourages and softens me +Common friendships will admit of division +Conclude the depth of my sense by its obscurity +Concluding no beauty can be greater than what they see +Condemn all violence in the education of a tender soul +Condemn the opposite affirmation equally +Condemnations have I seen more criminal than the crimes +Condemning wine, because some people will be drunk +Confession enervates reproach and disarms slander +Confidence in another man's virtue +Conscience makes us betray, accuse, and fight against ourselves +Conscience, which we pretend to be derived from nature +Consent, and complacency in giving a man's self up to melancholy +Consoles himself upon the utility and eternity of his writings +Content: more easily found in want than in abundance +Counterfeit condolings of pretenders +Courageous in death, not because his soul is immortal--Socrates +Courtesy and good manners is a very necessary study +Crafty humility that springs from presumption +Crates did worse, who threw himself into the liberty of poverty +Cruelty is the very extreme of all vices +Culling out of several books the sentences that best please me +Curiosity and of that eager passion for news +Curiosity of knowing things has been given to man for a scourge +"Custom," replied Plato, "is no little thing" +Customs and laws make justice +Dangerous man you have deprived of all means to escape +Dangers do, in truth, little or nothing hasten our end +Dearness is a good sauce to meat +Death can, whenever we please, cut short inconveniences +Death conduces more to birth and augmentation than to loss +Death discharges us of all our obligations +Death has us every moment by the throat +Death is a part of you +Death is terrible to Cicero, coveted by Cato +Death of old age the most rare and very seldom seen +Deceit maintains and supplies most men's employment +Decree that says, "The court understands nothing of the matter" +Defence allures attempt, and defiance provokes an enemy +Defend most the defects with which we are most tainted +Defer my revenge to another and better time +Deformity of the first cruelty makes me abhor all imitation +Delivered into our own custody the keys of life +Denying all solicitation, both of hand and mind +Depend as much upon fortune as anything else we do +Desire of riches is more sharpened by their use than by the need +Desire of travel +Desires, that still increase as they are fulfilled +Detest in others the defects which are more manifest in us +Did my discourses came only from my mouth or from my heart +Did not approve all sorts of means to obtain a victory +Die well--that is, patiently and tranquilly +Difference betwixt memory and understanding +Difficulty gives all things their estimation +Dignify our fopperies when we commit them to the press +Diogenes, esteeming us no better than flies or bladders +Discover what there is of good and clean in the bottom of the po +Disdainful, contemplative, serious and grave as the ass +Disease had arrived at its period or an effect of chance? +Disgorge what we eat in the same condition it was swallowed +Disguise, by their abridgments and at their own choice +Dissentient and tumultuary drugs +Diversity of medical arguments and opinions embraces all +Diverting the opinions and conjectures of the people +Do not much blame them for making their advantage of our folly +Do not to pray that all things may go as we would have them +Do not, nevertheless, always believe myself +Do thine own work, and know thyself +Doctors: more felicity and duration in their own lives? +Doctrine much more intricate and fantastic than the thing itself +Dost thou, then, old man, collect food for others' ears? +Doubt whether those (old writings) we have be not the worst +Doubtful ills plague us worst +Downright and sincere obedience +Drugs being in its own nature an enemy to our health +Drunkeness a true and certain trial of every one's nature +Dying appears to him a natural and indifferent accident +Each amongst you has made somebody cuckold +Eat your bread with the sauce of a more pleasing imagination +Education +Education ought to be carried on with a severe sweetness +Effect and performance are not at all in our power +Either tranquil life, or happy death +Eloquence prejudices the subject it would advance +Emperor Julian, surnamed the Apostate +Endeavouring to be brief, I become obscure +Engaged in the avenues of old age, being already past forty +Enough to do to comfort myself, without having to console others +Enslave our own contentment to the power of another? +Enters lightly into a quarrel is apt to go as lightly out of it +Entertain us with fables: astrologers and physicians +Epicurus +Establish this proposition by authority and huffing +Evade this tormenting and unprofitable knowledge +Even the very promises of physic are incredible in themselves +Events are a very poor testimony of our worth and parts +Every abridgment of a good book is a foolish abridgment +Every day travels towards death; the last only arrives at it +Every government has a god at the head of it +Every man thinks himself sufficiently intelligent +Every place of retirement requires a walk +Everything has many faces and several aspects +Examine, who is better learned, than who is more learned +Excel above the common rate in frivolous things +Excuse myself from knowing anything which enslaves me to others +Executions rather whet than dull the edge of vices +Expresses more contempt and condemnation than the other +Extend their anger and hatred beyond the dispute in question +Extremity of philosophy is hurtful +Fabric goes forming and piling itself up from hand to hand +Fame: an echo, a dream, nay, the shadow of a dream +Fancy that others cannot believe otherwise than as he does +Fantastic gibberish of the prophetic canting +Far more easy and pleasant to follow than to lead +Fathers conceal their affection from their children +Fault not to discern how far a man's worth extends +Fault will be theirs for having consulted me +Fear and distrust invite and draw on offence +Fear is more importunate and insupportable than death itself +Fear of the fall more fevers me than the fall itself +Fear to lose a thing, which being lost, cannot be lamented? +Fear was not that I should do ill, but that I should do nothing +Fear: begets a terrible astonishment and confusion +Feared, lest disgrace should make such delinquents desperate +Feminine polity has a mysterious procedure +Few men have been admired by their own domestics +Few men have made a wife of a mistress, who have not repented it +First informed who were to be the other guests +First thing to be considered in love matters: a fitting time +Flatterer in your old age or in your sickness +Follies do not make me laugh, it is our wisdom which does +Folly and absurdity are not to be cured by bare admonition +Folly of gaping after future things +Folly satisfied with itself than any reason can reasonably be +Folly than to be moved and angry at the follies of the world +Folly to hazard that upon the uncertainty of augmenting it +Folly to put out their own light and shine by a borrowed lustre +For fear of the laws and report of men +For who ever thought he wanted sense? +Fortune heaped up five or six such-like incidents +Fortune rules in all things +Fortune sometimes seems to delight in taking us at our word +Fortune will still be mistress of events +Fox, who found fault with what he could not obtain +Friend, it is not now time to play with your nails +Friend, the hook will not stick in such soft cheese +Friendships that the law and natural obligation impose upon us +Fruits of public commotion are seldom enjoyed +Gain to change an ill condition for one that is uncertain +Gave them new and more plausible names for their excuse +Gentleman would play the fool to make a show of defence +Gently to bear the inconstancy of a lover +Gewgaw to hang in a cabinet or at the end of the tongue +Give but the rind of my attention +Give me time to recover my strength and health +Give the ladies a cruel contempt of our natural furniture +Give these young wenches the things they long for +Give us history, more as they receive it than as they believe it +Giving is an ambitious and authoritative quality +Glory and curiosity are the scourges of the soul +Go out of ourselves, because we know not how there to reside +Good does not necessarily succeed evil; another evil may succeed +Good to be certain and finite, and evil, infinite and uncertain +Got up but an inch upon the shoulders of the last, but one +Gradations above and below pleasure +Gratify the gods and nature by massacre and murder +Great presumption to be so fond of one's own opinions +Greatest apprehensions, from things unseen, concealed +Greatest talkers, for the most part, do nothing to purpose +Greedy humour of new and unknown things +Grief provokes itself +Gross impostures of religions +Guess at our meaning under general and doubtful terms +Happen to do anything commendable, I attribute it to fortune +Hard to resolve a man's judgment against the common opinions +Haste trips up its own heels, fetters, and stops itself +Hate all sorts of obligation and restraint +Hate remedies that are more troublesome than the disease itself +Have ever had a great respect for her I loved +Have more wherewith to defray my journey, than I have way to go +Have no other title left me to these things but by the ears +Have you ever found any who have been dissatisfied with dying? +Having too good an opinion of our own worth +He cannot be good, seeing he is not evil even to the wicked +He did not think mankind worthy of a wise man's concern +He felt a pleasure and delight in so noble an action +He judged other men by himself +He may employ his passion, who can make no use of his reason +He may well go a foot, they say, who leads his horse in his hand +He must fool it a little who would not be deemed wholly a fool +He should discern in himself, as well as in others +He took himself along with him +He who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears +He who is only a good man that men may know it +He who lays the cloth is ever at the charge of the feast +He who lives everywhere, lives nowhere +He who provides for all, provides for nothing +He who stops not the start will never be able to stop the course +He will choose to be alone +Headache should come before drunkenness +Health depends upon the vanity and falsity of their promises +Health is altered and corrupted by their frequent prescriptions +Health to be worth purchasing by all the most painful cauteries +Hearing a philosopher talk of military affairs +Heat and stir up their imagination, and then we find fault +Help: no other effect than that of lengthening my suffering +High time to die when there is more ill than good in living +Hoary head and rivelled face of ancient usage +Hobbes said that if he Had been at college as long as others-- +Hold a stiff rein upon suspicion +Home anxieties and a mind enslaved by wearing complaints +Homer: The only words that have motion and action +Honour of valour consists in fighting, not in subduing +How infirm and decaying material this fabric of ours is +How many and many times he has been mistaken in his own judgment +How many more have died before they arrived at thy age +How many several ways has death to surprise us? +How many things," said he, "I do not desire!" +How many worthy men have we known to survive their reputation +How much easier is it not to enter in than it is to get out +How much it costs him to do no worse +How much more insupportable and painful an immortal life +How uncertain duration these accidental conveniences are +Humble out of pride +Husbands hate their wives only because they themselves do wrong +I always find superfluity superfluous +I am a little tenderly distrustful of things that I wish +I am apt to dream that I dream +I am disgusted with the world I frequent +I am hard to be got out, but being once upon the road +I am no longer in condition for any great change +I am not to be cuffed into belief +I am plain and heavy, and stick to the solid and the probable +I am very glad to find the way beaten before me by others +I am very willing to quit the government of my house +I bequeath to Areteus the maintenance of my mother +I can more hardly believe a man's constancy than any virtue +I cannot well refuse to play with my dog +I content myself with enjoying the world without bustle +I dare not promise but that I may one day be so much a fool +I do not consider what it is now, but what it was then +I do not judge opinions by years +I do not much lament the dead, and should envy them rather +I do not say that 'tis well said, but well thought +I do not willingly alight when I am once on horseback +I enter into confidence with dying +I ever justly feared to raise my head too high +I every day hear fools say things that are not foolish +I find myself here fettered by the laws of ceremony +I find no quality so easy to counterfeit as devotion +I for my part always went the plain way to work +I grudge nothing but care and trouble +I had much rather die than live upon charity +I had rather be old a brief time, than be old before old age +I hail and caress truth in what quarter soever I find it +I hate all sorts of tyranny, both in word and deed +I hate poverty equally with pain +I have a great aversion from a novelty +"I have done nothing to-day"--"What? have you not lived?" +I have lived longer by this one day than I should have done +I have no mind to die, but I have no objection to be dead +I have not a wit supple enough to evade a sudden question +I have nothing of my own that satisfies my judgment +I honour those most to whom I show the least honour +I lay no great stress upon my opinions; or of others +I look upon death carelessly when I look upon it universally +I love stout expressions amongst gentle men +I love temperate and moderate natures +I need not seek a fool from afar; I can laugh at myself +I owe it rather to my fortune than my reason +I receive but little advice, I also give but little +I scorn to mend myself by halves +I see no people so soon sick as those who take physic +I speak truth, not so much as I would, but as much as I dare +I take hold of, as little glorious and exemplary as you will +I understand my men even by their silence and smiles +I was always superstitiously afraid of giving offence +I was too frightened to be ill +"I wish you good health"--"No health to thee" replied the other +I would as willingly be lucky as wise +I would be rich of myself, and not by borrowing +I write my book for few men and for few years +Idleness is to me a very painful labour +Idleness, the mother of corruption +If a passion once prepossess and seize me, it carries me away +If I am talking my best, whoever interrupts me, stops me +If I stand in need of anger and inflammation, I borrow it +If it be a delicious medicine, take it +If it be the writer's wit or borrowed from some other +If nature do not help a little, it is very hard +If they can only be kind to us out of pity +If they chop upon one truth, that carries a mighty report +If they hear no noise, they think men sleep +If to philosophise be, as 'tis defined, to doubt +Ignorance does not offend me, but the foppery of it +Impotencies that so unseasonably surprise the lover +Ill luck is good for something +Imagne the mighty will not abase themselves so much as to live +Imitating other men's natures, thou layest aside thy own +Immoderate either seeking or evading glory or reputation +Impose them upon me as infallible +Impostures: very strangeness lends them credit +Improperly we call this voluntary dissolution, despair +Impunity pass with us for justice +In everything else a man may keep some decorum +In ordinary friendships I am somewhat cold and shy +In solitude, be company for thyself--Tibullus +In sorrow there is some mixture of pleasure +In the meantime, their halves were begging at their doors +In this last scene of death, there is no more counterfeiting +In those days, the tailor took measure of it +In war not to drive an enemy to despair +Inclination to love one another at the first sight +Inclination to variety and novelty common to us both +Incline the history to their own fancy +Inconsiderate excuses are a kind of self-accusation +Inconveniences that moderation brings (in civil war) +Indiscreet desire of a present cure, that so blind us +Indocile liberty of this member +Inquisitive after everything +Insensible of the stroke when our youth dies in us +Insert whole sections and pages out of ancient authors +Intelligence is required to be able to know that a man knows not +Intemperance is the pest of pleasure +Intended to get a new husband than to lament the old +Interdict all gifts betwixt man and wife +Interdiction incites, and who are more eager, being forbidden +It (my books) may know many things that are gone from me +It happens, as with cages, the birds without despair to get in +It is better to die than to live miserable +It is no hard matter to get children +It is not a book to read, 'tis a book to study and learn +It is not for outward show that the soul is to play its part +It's madness to nourish infirmity +Jealousy: no remedy but flight or patience +Judge by justice, and choose men by reason +Judge by the eye of reason, and not from common report +Judgment of duty principally lies in the will +Judgment of great things is many times formed from lesser thing +Justice als takes cognisance of those who glean after the reaper +Killing is good to frustrate an offence to come, not to revenge +Knock you down with the authority of their experience +Knot is not so sure that a man may not half suspect it will slip +Knowledge and truth may be in us without judgment +Knowledge is not so absolutely necessary as judgment +Knowledge of others, wherein the honour consists +Known evil was ever more supportable than one that was, new +Ladies are no sooner ours, than we are no more theirs +Language: obscure and unintelligible in wills and contracts +Lascivious poet: Homer +Last death will kill but a half or a quarter of a man +Law: breeder of altercation and division +Laws (of Plato on travel), which forbids it after threescore +Laws cannot subsist without mixture of injustice +Laws do what they can, when they cannot do what they would +Laws keep up their credit, not for being just--but as laws +Lay the fault on the voices of those who speak to me +Laying themselves low to avoid the danger of falling +Learn my own debility and the treachery of my understanding +Learn the theory from those who best know the practice +Learn what it is right to wish +Learning improves fortunes enough, but not minds +Least end of a hair will serve to draw them into my discourse +Least touch or prick of a pencil in comparison of the whole +Leave society when we can no longer add anything to it +Leaving nothing unsaid, how home and bitter soever +Led by the ears by this charming harmony of words +Lend himself to others, and only give himself to himself +Lessen the just value of things that I possess +Let a man take which course he will," said he; "he will repent" +Let him be as wise as he will, after all he is but a man +Let him be satisfied with correcting himself +Let him examine every man's talent +Let it alone a little +Let it be permitted to the timid to hope +Let not us seek illusions from without and unknown +Let us not be ashamed to speak what we are not ashamed to think +Let us not seek our disease out of ourselves; 'tis in us +Liberality at the expense of others +Liberty and laziness, the qualities most predominant in me +Liberty of poverty +Liberty to lean, but not to lay our whole weight upon others +Library: Tis there that I am in my kingdom +License of judgments is a great disturbance to great affairs +Life of Caesar has no greater example for us than our own +Life should be cut off in the sound and living part +Light griefs can speak: deep sorrows are dumb +Light prognostics they give of themselves in their tender years +Little affairs most disturb us +Little knacks and frivolous subtleties +Little learning is needed to form a sound mind" --Seneca +Little less trouble in governing a private family than a kingdom +Live a quite contrary sort of life to what they prescribe others +Live at the expense of life itself +Live, not so long as they please, but as long as they ought +Living is slavery if the liberty of dying be wanting +Living well, which of all arts is the greatest +Llaying the fault upon the patient, by such frivolous reasons +Lodge nothing in his fancy upon simple authority and upon trust +Long a voyage I should at last run myself into some disadvantage +Long sittings at table both trouble me and do me harm +Long toleration begets habit; habit, consent and imitation +Look on death not only without astonishment but without care +Look upon themselves as a third person only, a stranger +Look, you who think the gods have no care of human things +Lose what I have a particular care to lock safe up +Loses more by defending his vineyard than if he gave it up +Love is the appetite of generation by the mediation of beauty +Love shamefully and dishonestly cured by marriage +Love them the less for our own faults +Love we bear to our wives is very lawful +Love, full, lively, and sharp; a pleasure inflamed by difficulty +Loved them for our sport, like monkeys, and not as men +Lower himself to the meanness of defending his innocence +Made all medicinal conclusions largely give way to my pleasure +Making their advantage of our folly, for most men do the same +Malice must be employed to correct this arrogant ignorance +Malice sucks up the greatest part of its own venom +Malicious kind of justice +Man (must) know that he is his own +Man after who held out his pulse to a physician was a fool +Man can never be wise but by his own wisdom +Man may say too much even upon the best subjects +Man may with less trouble adapt himself to entire abstinence +Man must approach his wife with prudence and temperance +Man must have a care not to do his master so great service +Man must learn that he is nothing but a fool +Man runs a very great hazard in their hands (of physicians) +Mark of singular good nature to preserve old age +Marriage +Marriage rejects the company and conditions of love +Melancholy: Are there not some constitutions that feed upon it? +Memories are full enough, but the judgment totally void +Men approve of things for their being rare and new +Men are not always to rely upon the personal confessions +Men as often commend as undervalue me beyond reason +Men make them (the rules) without their (women's) help +Men must embark, and not deliberate, upon high enterprises +Men should furnish themselves with such things as would float +Mercenaries who would receive any (pay) +Merciful to the man, but not to his wickedness--Aristotle +Methinks I am no more than half of myself +Methinks I promise it, if I but say it +Miracle: everything our reason cannot comprehend +Miracles and strange events have concealed themselves from me +Miracles appear to be so, according to our ignorance of nature +Miserable kind of remedy, to owe one's health to one's disease! +Miserable, who has not at home where to be by himself +Misfortunes that only hurt us by being known +Mix railing, indiscretion, and fury in his disputations +Moderation is a virtue that gives more work than suffering +Modesty is a foolish virtue in an indigent person (Homer) +More ado to interpret interpretations +More books upon books than upon any other subject +More brave men been lost in occasions of little moment +More solicitous that men speak of us, than how they speak +More supportable to be always alone than never to be so +More valued a victory obtained by counsel than by force +Morosity and melancholic humour of a sour ill-natured pedant +Most cruel people, and upon frivolous occasions, apt to cry +Most men are rich in borrowed sufficiency +Most men do not so much believe as they acquiesce and permit +Most of my actions are guided by example, not by choice +Mothers are too tender +Motive to some vicious occasion or some prospect of profit +Much better to offend him once than myself every day +Much difference betwixt us and ourselves +Must for the most part entertain ourselves with ourselves +Must of necessity walk in the steps of another +My affection alters, my judgment does not +My books: from me hold that which I have not retained +My dog unseasonably importunes me to play +My fancy does not go by itself, as when my legs move it +My humour is no friend to tumult +My humour is unfit either to speak or write for beginners +My innocence is a simple one; little vigour and no art +My mind is easily composed at distance +My reason is not obliged to bow and bend; my knees are +My thoughts sleep if I sit still +My words does but injure the love I have conceived within +Natural death the most rare and very seldom seen +Nature of judgment to have it more deliberate and more slow +Nature of wit is to have its operation prompt and sudden +Nature, who left us in such a state of imperfection +Nearest to the opinions of those with whom they have to do +Negligent garb, which is yet observable amongst the young men +Neither be a burden to myself nor to any other +Neither continency nor virtue where there are no opposing desire +Neither men nor their lives are measured by the ell +Neither the courage to die nor the heart to live +Never any man knew so much, and spake so little +Never did two men make the same judgment of the same thing +Never observed any great stability in my soul to resist passions +Never oppose them either by word or sign, how false or absurd +Never represent things to you simply as they are +Never spoke of my money, but falsely, as others do +New World: sold it opinions and our arts at a very dear rate +Nnone that less keep their promise(than physicians) +No alcohol the night on which a man intends to get children +No beast in the world so much to be feared by man as man +No danger with them, though they may do us no good +No doing more difficult than that not doing, nor more active +No effect of virtue, to have stronger arms and legs +No evil is honourable; but death is honourable +No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness +No great choice betwixt not knowing to speak anything but ill-- +No man continues ill long but by his own fault +No man is free from speaking foolish things +No man more certain than another of to-morrow--Seneca +No necessity upon a man to live in necessity +No one can be called happy till he is dead and buried +No other foundation or support than public abuse +No passion so contagious as that of fear +No physic that has not something hurtful in it +No use to this age, I throw myself back upon that other +No way found to tranquillity that is good in common +Noble and rich, where examples of virtue are rarely lodged +Nobody prognosticated that I should be wicked, but only useless +Noise of arms deafened the voice of laws +None of the sex, let her be as ugly as the devil thinks lovable +Nor get children but before I sleep, nor get them standing +Nor have other tie upon one another, but by our word +Nosegay of foreign flowers, having furnished nothing of my own +Not a victory that puts not an end to the war +Not being able to govern events, I govern myself +Not believe from one, I should not believe from a hundred +Not certain to live till I came home +Not conceiving things otherwise than by this outward bark +Not conclude too much upon your mistress's inviolable chastity +Not for any profit, but for the honour of honesty itself +Not having been able to pronounce one syllable, which is No! +Not in a condition to lend must forbid himself to borrow +Not melancholic, but meditative +Not to instruct but to be instructed +Not want, but rather abundance, that creates avarice +Nothing can be a grievance that is but once +Nothing falls where all falls +Nothing is more confident than a bad poet +Nothing is so firmly believed, as what we least know +Nothing is so supple and erratic as our understanding +Nothing noble can be performed without danger +Nothing presses so hard upon a state as innovation +Nothing so grossly, nor so ordinarily faulty, as the laws +Nothing tempts my tears but tears +Nothing that so poisons as flattery +Number of fools so much exceeds the wise +O Athenians, what this man says, I will do +O my friends, there is no friend: Aristotle +O wretched men, whose pleasures are a crime +O, the furious advantage of opportunity! +Obedience is never pure nor calm in him who reasons and disputes +Obliged to his age for having weaned him from pleasure +Observed the laws of marriage, than I either promised or expect +Obstinacy and contention are common qualities +Obstinacy is the sister of constancy +Obstinancy and heat in argument are the surest proofs of folly +Obstinate in growing worse +Occasion to La Boetie to write his "Voluntary Servitude" +Occasions of the least lustre are ever the most dangerous +Occupy our thoughts about the general, and about universal cause +Of the fleeting years each steals something from me +Office of magnanimity openly and professedly to love and hate +Oftentimes agitated with divers passions +Old age: applaud the past and condemn the present +Old men who retain the memory of things past +Omit, as incredible, such things as they do not understand +On all occasions to contradict and oppose +One door into life, but a hundred thousand ways out +One may be humble out of pride +One may more boldly dare what nobody thinks you dare +One may regret better times, but cannot fly from the present +One must first know what is his own and what is not +Only desire to become more wise, not more learned or eloquent +Only secure harbour from the storms and tempests of life +Only set the humours they would purge more violently in work +Open speaking draws out discoveries, like wine and love +Opinions they have of things and not by the things themselves +Opinions we have are taken on authority and trust +Opposition and contradiction entertain and nourish them +Option now of continuing in life or of completing the voyage +Order a purge for your brain, it will there be much better +Order it so that your virtue may conquer your misfortune +Ordinances it (Medicine)foists upon us +Ordinary friendships, you are to walk with bridle in your hand +Ordinary method of cure is carried on at the expense of life +Others adore all of their own side +Ought not only to have his hands, but his eyes, too, chaste +Ought not to expect much either from his vigilance or power +Ought to withdraw and retire his soul from the crowd +Our extremest pleasure has some sort of groaning +Our fancy does what it will, both with itself and us +Our judgments are yet sick +Our justice presents to us but one hand +Our knowledge, which is a wretched foundation +Our qualities have no title but in comparison +Our will is more obstinate by being opposed +Over-circumspect and wary prudence is a mortal enemy +Overvalue things, because they are foreign, absent +Owe ourselves chiefly and mostly to ourselves +Passion has a more absolute command over us than reason +Passion has already confounded his judgment +Passion of dandling and caressing infants scarcely born +Pay very strict usury who did not in due time pay the principal +People are willing to be gulled in what they desire +People conceiving they have right and title to be judges +Perfect friendship I speak of is indivisible +Perfect men as they are, they are yet simply men +Perfection: but I will not buy it so dear as it costs +Perpetual scolding of his wife (of Socrates) +Petulant madness contends with itself +Philopoemen: paying the penalty of my ugliness +Philosophy +Philosophy has discourses proper for childhood +Philosophy is nothing but to prepare one's self to die +Philosophy is that which instructs us to live +Philosophy looked upon as a vain and fantastic name +Phusicians cure by by misery and pain +Physic +Physician worse physicked +Physician: pass through all the diseases he pretends to cure +Physician's "help", which is very often an obstacle +Physicians are not content to deal only with the sick +Physicians fear men should at any time escape their authority +Physicians were the only men who might lie at pleasure +Physicians: earth covers their failures +Pinch the secret strings of our imperfections +Pitiful ways and expedients to the jugglers of the law +Pity is reputed a vice amongst the Stoics +Plato angry at excess of sleeping than at excess of drinking +Plato forbids children wine till eighteen years of age +Plato said of the Egyptians, that they were all physicians +Plato says, that the gods made man for their sport +Plato will have nobody marry before thirty +Plato: lawyers and physicians are bad institutions of a country +Plays of children are not performed in play +Pleasing all: a mark that can never be aimed at or hit +Pleasure of telling (a pleasure little inferior to that of doing +Poets +Possession begets a contempt of what it holds and rules +Practical Jokes: Tis unhandsome to fight in play +Preachers very often work more upon their auditory than reasons +Preface to bribe the benevolence of the courteous reader +Prefer in bed, beauty before goodness +Preferring the universal and common tie to all national ties +Premeditation of death is the premeditation of liberty +Prepare ourselves against the preparations of death +Present Him such words as the memory suggests to the tongue +Present himself with a halter about his neck to the people +Presumptive knowledge by silence +Pretending to find out the cause of every accident +Priest shall on the wedding-day open the way to the bride +Proceed so long as there shall be ink and paper in the world +Profession of knowledge and their immeasurable self-conceit +Profit made only at the expense of another +Prolong his life also prolonged and augmented his pain +Prolong your misery an hour or two +Prudent and just man may be intemperate and inconsistent +Prudent man, when I imagine him in this posture +Psalms of King David: promiscuous, indiscreet +Public weal requires that men should betray, and lie +Puerile simplicities of our children +Pure cowardice that makes our belief so pliable +Put us into a way of extending and diversifying difficulties +Pyrrho's hog +Quiet repose and a profound sleep without dreams +Rage compelled to excuse itself by a pretence of good-will +Rage it puts them to oppose silence and coldness to their fury +Rash and incessant scolding runs into custom +Rather be a less while old than be old before I am really so +Rather complain of ill-fortune than be ashamed of victory +Rather prating of another man's province than his own +Reading those books, converse with the great and heroic souls +Reasons often anticipate the effect +Recommendation of strangeness, rarity, and dear purchase +Refusin to justify, excuse, or explain myself +Regret so honourable a post, where necessity must make them bold +Remotest witness knows more about it than those who were nearest +Represented her a little too passionate for a married Venus +Reputation: most useless, frivolous, and false coin that passes +Repute for value in them, not what they bring to us +Reserve a backshop, wholly our own and entirely free +Resolved to bring nothing to it but expectation and patience +Rest satisfied, without desire of prolongation of life or name +Restoring what has been lent us, wit usury and accession +Revenge more wounds our children than it heals us +Revenge, which afterwards produces a series of new cruelties +Reverse of truth has a hundred thousand forms +Rhetoric: an art to flatter and deceive +Rhetoric: to govern a disorderly and tumultuous rabble +Richer than we think we are; but we are taught to borrow +Ridiculous desire of riches when we have lost the use of them +Right of command appertains to the beautiful-Aristotle +Rome was more valiant before she grew so learned +Rowers who so advance backward +Rude and quarrelsome flatly to deny a stated fact +Same folly as to be sorry we were not alive a hundred years ago +Satisfaction of mind to have only one path to walk in +Satisfied and pleased with and in themselves +Say of some compositions that they stink of oil and of the lamp +Scratching is one of nature's sweetest gratifications +Season a denial with asperity, suspense, or favour +See how flexible our reason is +Seek the quadrature of the circle, even when on their wives +Seeming anger, for the better governing of my house +Send us to the better air of some other country +Sense: no one who is not contented with his share +Setting too great a value upon ourselves +Setting too little a value upon others +Settled my thoughts to live upon less than I have +Sex: To put fools and wise men, beasts and us, on a level +Shake the truth of our Church by the vices of her ministers +Shame for me to serve, being so near the reach of liberty +Sharps and sweets of marriage, are kept secret by the wise +She who only refuses, because 'tis forbidden, consents +Shelter my own weakness under these great reputations +Short of the foremost, but before the last +Should first have mended their breeches +Silence, therefore, and modesty are very advantageous qualities +Silent mien procured the credit of prudence and capacity +Sins that make the least noise are the worst +Sitting betwixt two stools +Slaves, or exiles, ofttimes live as merrily as other folk +Sleep suffocates and suppresses the faculties of the soul +Smile upon us whilst we are alive +So austere and very wise countenance and carriage--of physicians +So many trillions of men, buried before us +So much are men enslaved to their miserable being +So that I could have said no worse behind their backs +So weak and languishing, as not to have even wishing left to him +Socrates kept a confounded scolding wife +Socrates: According to what a man can +Soft, easy, and wholesome pillow is ignorance and incuriosity +Solon said that eating was physic against the malady hunger +Solon, that none can be said to be happy until he is dead +some people rude, by being overcivil in their courtesy +Some wives covetous indeed, but very few that are good managers +Sometimes the body first submits to age, sometimes the mind +Souls that are regular and strong of themselves are rare +Sparing and an husband of his knowledge +Speak less of one's self than what one really is is folly +Spectators can claim no interest in the honour and pleasure +Stilpo lost wife, children, and goods +Stilpo: thank God, nothing was lost of his +Strangely suspect all this merchandise: medical care +Strong memory is commonly coupled with infirm judgment +Studied, when young, for ostentation, now for diversion +Studies, to teach me to do, and not to write +Study makes me sensible how much I have to learn +Study of books is a languishing and feeble motion +Study to declare what is justice, but never took care to do it +Stumble upon a truth amongst an infinite number of lies +Stupidity and facility natural to the common people +Style wherewith men establish religions and laws +Subdividing these subtilties we teach men to increase their doub +Such a recipe as they will not take themselves +Suffer my judgment to be made captive by prepossession +Suffer those inconveniences which are not possibly to be avoided +Sufficiently covered by their virtue without any other robe +Suicide: a morsel that is to be swallowed without chewing +Superstitiously to seek out in the stars the ancient causes +Swell and puff up their souls, and their natural way of speaking +Swim in troubled waters without fishing in them +Take a pleasure in being uninterested in other men's affairs +Take all things at the worst, and to resolve to bear that worst +Take my last leave of every place I depart from +Take two sorts of grist out of the same sack +Taking things upon trust from vulgar opinion +Taught to be afraid of professing our ignorance +Taught to consider sleep as a resemblance of death +Tearing a body limb from limb by racks and torments +Testimony of the truth from minds prepossessed by custom? +That he could neither read nor swim +That looks a nice well-made shoe to you +That we may live, we cease to live +That which cowardice itself has chosen for its refuge +The action is commendable, not the man +The age we live in produces but very indifferent things +The authors, with whom I converse +The Babylonians carried their sick into the public square +The best authors too much humble and discourage me +The Bible: the wicked and ignorant grow worse by it +The cause of truth ought to be the common cause +The conduct of our lives is the true mirror of our doctrine +The consequence of common examples +The day of your birth is one day's advance towards the grave +The deadest deaths are the best +The event often justifies a very foolish conduct +The faintness that surprises in the exercises of Venus +The gods sell us all the goods they give us +The good opinion of the vulgar is injurious +The honour we receive from those that fear us is not honour +The ignorant return from the combat full of joy and triumph +The impulse of nature, which is a rough counsellor +The last informed is better persuaded than the first +The mean is best +The mind grows costive and thick in growing old +The most manifest sign of wisdom is a continual cheerfulness +The most voluntary death is the finest +The particular error first makes the public error +The pedestal is no part of the statue +The privilege of the mind to rescue itself from old age +The reward of a thing well done is to have done it +The satiety of living, inclines a man to desire to die +The sick man has not to complain who has his cure in his sleeve +The storm is only begot by a concurrence of angers +The thing in the world I am most afraid of is fear +The very name Liberality sounds of Liberty +The vice opposite to curiosity is negligence +The virtue of the soul does not consist in flying high +Their disguises and figures only serve to cosen fools +Their labour is not to delivery, but about conception +Their pictures are not here who were cast away +Their souls seek repose in agitation +There are defeats more triumphant than victories +There are some upon whom their rich clothes weep +There can be no pleasure to me without communication +There is more trouble in keeping money than in getting it +There is no allurement like modesty, if it be not rude +There is no long, nor short, to things that are no more +There is no merchant that always gains +There is no reason that has not its contrary +There is no recompense becomes virtue +There is none of us who would not be worse than kings +There is nothing I hate so much as driving a bargain +There is nothing like alluring the appetite and affections +There is nothing single and rare in respect of nature +These sleepy, sluggish sort of men are often the most dangerous +They (good women) are not by the dozen, as every one knows +They begin to teach us to live when we have almost done living +They better conquer us by flying +They buy a cat in a sack +They can neither lend nor give anything to one another +They do not see my heart, they see but my countenance +They err as much who too much forbear Venus +They gently name them, so they patiently endure them (diseases) +They have heard, they have seen, they have done so and so +They have not one more invention left wherewith to amuse us +They have not the courage to suffer themselves to be corrected +They have yet touched nothing of that which is mine +They juggle and trifle in all their discourses at our expense +They must be very hard to please, if they are not contented +They must become insensible and invisible to satisfy us +They neither instruct us to think well nor to do well +They never loved them till dead +They who would fight custom with grammar are triflers +Thing at which we all aim, even in virtue is pleasure +Things grow familiar to men's minds by being often seen +Things I say are better than those I write +Things often appear greater to us at distance than near at hand +Things seem greater by imagination than they are in effect +Things that engage us elsewhere and separate us from ourselves +Think myself no longer worth my own care +Think of physic as much good or ill as any one would have me +Thinking nothing done, if anything remained to be done +Thinks nothing profitable that is not painful +This decay of nature which renders him useless, burdensome +This plodding occupation of bookes is as painfull as any other +Those immodest and debauched tricks and postures +Those oppressed with sorrow sometimes surprised by a smile +Those which we fear the least are, peradventure, most to be fear +Those who can please and hug themselves in what they do +Those within (marriage) despair of getting out +Thou diest because thou art living +Thou wilt not feel it long if thou feelest it too much +Though I be engaged to one forme, I do not tie the world unto it +Though nobody should read me, have I wasted time +Threats of the day of judgment +Thucydides: which was the better wrestler +Thy own cowardice is the cause, if thou livest in pain +Tis all swine's flesh, varied by sauces +Tis an exact life that maintains itself in due order in private +Tis better to lean towards doubt than assurance--Augustine +Tis evil counsel that will admit no change +Tis far beyond not fearing death to taste and relish it +Tis for youth to subject itself to common opinions +Tis impossible to deal fairly with a fool +Tis in some sort a kind of dying to avoid the pain of living well +Tis more laudable to obey the bad than the good +Tis no matter; it may be of use to some others +Tis not the cause, but their interest, that inflames them +Tis not the number of men, but the number of good men +Tis said of Epimenides, that he always prophesied backward +Tis so I melt and steal away from myself +Tis the sharpnss of our mind that gives the edge to our pains +Tis then no longer correction, but revenge +Tis there she talks plain French +Titillation of ill-natured pleasure in seeing others suffer +Title of barbarism to everything that is not familiar +Titles being so dearly bought +Titles of my chapters do not always comprehend the whole matter +To be a slave, incessantly to be led by the nose by one's self +To be, not to seem +To condemn them as impossible, is by a temerarious presumption +To contemn what we do not comprehend +To die of old age is a death rare, extraordinary, and singular +To do well where there was danger was the proper office +To forbear doing is often as generous as to do +To forbid us anything is to make us have a mind to't +To fret and vex at folly, as I do, is folly itself +To give a currency to his little pittance of learning +To go a mile out of their way to hook in a fine word +To keep me from dying is not in your power +To kill men, a clear and strong light is required +To know by rote, is no knowledge +To make little things appear great was his profession +To make their private advantage at the public expense +To smell, though well, is to stink +To study philosophy is nothing but to prepare one's self to die +To what friend dare you intrust your griefs +To whom no one is ill who can be good? +Tongue will grow too stiff to bend +Too contemptible to be punished +Torture: rather a trial of patience than of truth +Totally brutified by an immoderate thirst after knowledge +Transferring of money from the right owners to strangers +Travel with not only a necessary, but a handsome equipage +True liberty is to be able to do what a man will with himself +Truly he, with a great effort will shortly say a mighty trifle +Truth itself has not the privilege to be spoken at all times +Truth, that for being older it is none the wiser +Turks have alms and hospitals for beasts +Turn up my eyes to heaven to return thanks, than to crave +Tutor to the ignorance and folly of the first we meet +Twas a happy marriage betwixt a blind wife and a deaf husband +Twenty people prating about him when he is at stool +Two opinions alike, no more than two hairs +Two principal guiding reins are reward and punishment +Tyrannic sourness not to endure a form contrary to one's own +Tyrannical authority physicians usurp over poor creatures +Unbecoming rudeness to carp at everything +Under fortune's favour, to prepare myself for her disgrace +Universal judgments that I see so common, signify nothing +Unjust judges of their actions, as they are of ours +Unjust to exact from me what I do not owe +Upon the precipice, 'tis no matter who gave you the push +Use veils from us the true aspect of things +Utility of living consists not in the length of days +Valour has its bounds as well as other virtues +Valour whetted and enraged by mischance +Valour will cause a trembling in the limbs as well as fear +Valuing the interest of discipline +Vast distinction betwixt devotion and conscience +Venture it upon his neighbour, if he will let him +venture the making ourselves better without any danger +Very idea we invent for their chastity is ridiculous +Vice of confining their belief to their own capacity +Vices will cling together, if a man have not a care +Victorious envied the conquered +Virtue and ambition, unfortunately, seldom lodge together +Virtue is a pleasant and gay quality +Virtue is much strengthened by combats +Virtue refuses facility for a companion +Viscid melting kisses of youthful ardour in my wanton age +Voice and determination of the rabble, the mother of ignorance +Vulgar reports and opinions that drive us on +We are masters of nothing but the will +We are not to judge of counsels by events +We ask most when we bring least +We believe we do not believe +We can never be despised according to our full desert +We cannot be bound beyond what we are able to perform +We confess our ignorance in many things +We consider our death as a very great thing +We do not correct the man we hang; we correct others by him +We do not easily accept the medicine we understand +We do not go, we are driven +We do not so much forsake vices as we change them +We have lived enough for others +We have more curiosity than capacity +We have naturally a fear of pain, but not of death +We have not the thousandth part of ancient writings +We have taught the ladies to blush +We much more aptly imagine an artisan upon his close-stool +We must learn to suffer what we cannot evade +We neither see far forward nor far backward +We only labour to stuff the memory +We ought to grant free passage to diseases +We say a good marriage because no one says to the contrary +We set too much value upon ourselves +We still carry our fetters along with us +We take other men's knowledge and opinions upon trust +Weakness and instability of a private and particular fancy +Weigh, as wise: men should, the burden of obligation +Well, and what if it had been death itself? +Were more ambitious of a great reputation than of a good one +What a man says should be what he thinks +What are become of all our brave philosophical precepts? +What can they not do, what do they fear to do (for beauty) +What can they suffer who do not fear to die? +What did I say? that I have? no, Chremes, I had +What he did by nature and accident, he cannot do by design +What is more accidental than reputation? +What may be done to-morrow, may be done to-day +What more? they lie with their lovers learnedly +What need have they of anything but to live beloved and honoured +What sort of wine he liked the best: "That of another" +What step ends the near and what step begins the remote +What they ought to do when they come to be men +What we have not seen, we are forced to receive from other hands +What, shall so much knowledge be lost +Whatever was not ordinary diet, was instead of a drug +When I travel I have nothing to care for but myself +When jealousy seizes these poor souls +When their eyes give the lie to their tongue +When time begins to wear things out of memory +When we have got it, we want something else +"When will this man be wise," said he, "if he is yet learning?" +When you see me moved first, let me alone, right or wrong +Where the lion's skin is too short +Where their profit is, let them there have their pleasure too +Wherever the mind is perplexed, it is in an entire disorder +Whilst thou wast silent, thou seemedst to be some great thing +Whimpering is offensive to the living and vain to the dead +Who by their fondness of some fine sounding word +Who can flee from himself +Who discern no riches but in pomp and show +Who does not boast of some rare recipe +Who escapes being talked of at the same rate +Who ever saw one physician approve of another's prescription +Who has once been a very fool, will never after be very wise +Who would weigh him without the honour and grandeur of his end +Whoever expects punishment already suffers it +Whoever will be cured of ignorance must confess it +Whoever will call to mind the excess of his past anger +Whosoever despises his own life, is always master +Why do we not imitate the Roman architecture? +Wide of the mark in judging of their own works +Willingly give them leave to laugh after we are dead +Willingly slip the collar of command upon any pretence whatever +Wisdom has its excesses, and has no less need of moderation +Wisdom is folly that does not accommodate itself to the common +Wise man lives as long as he ought, not so long as he can +Wise man never loses anything if he have himself +Wise man to keep a curbing hand upon the impetus of friendship +Wise may learn more of fools, than fools can of the wise +Wise whose invested money is visible in beautiful villas +Wiser who only know what is needful for them to know +With being too well I am about to die +Woman who goes to bed to a man, must put off her modesty +Women who paint, pounce, and plaster up their ruins +Wont to give others their life, and not to receive it +World where loyalty of one's own children is unknown +Worse endure an ill-contrived robe than an ill-contrived mind +Would have every one in his party blind or a blockhead +Would in this affair have a man a little play the servant +Wrangling arrogance, wholly believing and trusting in itself +Wretched and dangerous thing to depend upon others +Write what he knows, and as much as he knows, but no more +Wrong the just side when they go about to assist it with fraud +Yet at least for ambition's sake, let us reject ambition 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