The Essays of Montaigne, Volume 3Harvard University Press, 1925 - French literature |
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Page 38 - Lucili ritu, nostrum melioris utroque. ille velut fidis arcana sodalibus olim 30 credebat libris, neque si male cesserat, usquam decurrens alio, neque si bene: quo fit, ut omnis votiva pateat veluti descripta tabella vita senis.
Page 52 - Non agimur tumidis velis aquilone secundo ; Non tamen adversis aetatem ducimus austris, Viribus, ingenio, specie, virtute, loco, re Extremi primorum, extremis usque priores.
Page 189 - Ac velut immissi diversis partibus ignes arentem in silvam et virgulta sonantia lauro; aut ubi decursu rapido de montibus altis dant sonitum spumosi amnes, et in aequora currunt quisque suum populatus iter...
Page 207 - Then the rulers of the State are the only persons who ought to have the privilege of lying, either at home or abroad ; they may be allowed to lie for the good of the State.
Page 178 - Quem de visceribus traxerat ipsa suis : Si qua fides, vulnus quod feci, non dolet, inquit; Sed quod tu facies, id mihi, Pâte, doletb.
Page 260 - To win through a breach, to conduct an embassy, to govern a people, these are dazzling actions. To scold, to laugh, to sell, to pay, to love, to hate, and to deal pleasantly and justly with our household and ourselves, not to let ourselves go, not to be false to ourselves, that is a rarer matter, more difficult and less noticeable.
Page 261 - Mansuevere ferae, et vultus posuere minaces, Atque hominem didicere pati, si torrida parvus Venit in ora cruor, redeunt rabiesque furorque, Admonitaeque tument gustato sanguine fauces: Fervet, et a trepido vix abstinet ira magistro; these original qualities are not to be rooted out; they may be covered and concealed.
Page 128 - Aurora suis rubra colorat equis ! namque ubi mortifero iacta est fax ultima lecto, uxorum fusis stat pia turba comis, et certamen habent leti, quae viva sequatur coniugium : pudor est non licuisse mori. 20 ardent victrices et flammae pectora praebent, imponuntque suis ora perusta viris.
Page 276 - Quantum distet ab Inacho Codrus pro patria non timidus mori, narras et genus Aeaci et pugnata sacro bella sub Ilio: quo Chium pretio cadum mercemur, quis aquam temperet ignibus quo praebente domum et quota Paelignis caream frigoribus, taces. da lunae propere novae, da noctis mediae, da, puer, auguris Murenae: tribus aut novem miscentur cyathis pocula commodis.
Page 70 - I owe principally to myself. For the firmest and most general ideas I have are those which, in a manner of speaking, were born with me. They are natural and all mine. I produced them crude and simple, with a conception bold and strong, but a little confused and imperfect. Since then I have established and fortified them by the authority of others and the sound arguments of the ancients, with whom I found my judgment in agreement. These men have given me a firmer grip on my ideas and a more complete...