Essays of Montaigne, Volume 3Reeves and Turner, 1902 |
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... authority and power , having been called in by a stranger to share in the succession of a forged will , that so he might secure his own part , satisfied themselves with having no hand in the forgery , and refused not to make their advan ...
... authority and power , having been called in by a stranger to share in the succession of a forged will , that so he might secure his own part , satisfied themselves with having no hand in the forgery , and refused not to make their advan ...
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... , ignorant of sordid refusal , shines in taintless honours , nor takes nor leaves authority at the mere will of the vulgar . " - Horace , Od . , iii . 2 , 17 . part , but for ourselves within , where no eyes 26 BOOK II . Of Glory.
... , ignorant of sordid refusal , shines in taintless honours , nor takes nor leaves authority at the mere will of the vulgar . " - Horace , Od . , iii . 2 , 17 . part , but for ourselves within , where no eyes 26 BOOK II . Of Glory.
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... authority to be dissected by the vain fancies of 1 " This gift Providence has given to men , that honest things should be the most agreeable . " - Quintilian , Inst . Orat . , i . 12 . Seneca , Ep . , 85 . 3 " I have laughed to see ...
... authority to be dissected by the vain fancies of 1 " This gift Providence has given to men , that honest things should be the most agreeable . " - Quintilian , Inst . Orat . , i . 12 . Seneca , Ep . , 85 . 3 " I have laughed to see ...
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... authority that Numa gave to his laws , under the title of the patronage of this goddess , Zoroaster , legislator of the Bactrians and Persians , gave to his under the name of the God Oromazis : Trismegistus , legislator of the Egyptians ...
... authority that Numa gave to his laws , under the title of the patronage of this goddess , Zoroaster , legislator of the Bactrians and Persians , gave to his under the name of the God Oromazis : Trismegistus , legislator of the Egyptians ...
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... authority makes husbands look upon their own wives with a vicious disdain , and many fathers their children ; so I , betwixt two equal merits , should always be swayed against my own ; not so much that the jealousy of my advancement and ...
... authority makes husbands look upon their own wives with a vicious disdain , and many fathers their children ; so I , betwixt two equal merits , should always be swayed against my own ; not so much that the jealousy of my advancement and ...
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Page 21 - I care not so much what I am in the opinion of others, as what I am in my own; I would be rich of myself, and not by borrowing.
Page 235 - I speak truth, not so much as I would, but as much as I dare: and I dare a little the more, as I grow older; for methinks custom allows to age more liberty of prating, and more indiscretion of talking of a man's self.
Page 29 - 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 24 - ... peril of death, is, indeed, something in every one of us, because we there hazard all ; but for the world's concern, they are things so ordinary, and so many of them are every day seen, and there must of necessity be so many of the same kind to produce any notable effect, that we cannot expect any particular renown...
Page 211 - And there never was in the world two opinions alike, no more than two hairs or two grains ; the most universal quality is diversity.
Page 293 - might I have had my own will, I would not have married Wisdom herself, if she would have had me: but 'tis to much purpose to evade it, the common custom and use of life will have it so. Most of my actions are guided by example, not choice.
Page 164 - Quem de visceribus traxerat ipsa suis : Si qua fides, vulnus quod feci, non dolet, inquit; Sed quod tu facies, id mihi, Pâte, doletb.
Page 69 - I have no more made my book than my book has made me— a book consubstantial with its author, concerned with my own self, an integral part of my life; not concerned with some third-hand, extraneous purpose, like all other books.
Page 216 - How many curious moral variations he had to show! — "vices that are lawful": vices in us which "help to make up the seam in our piecing, as poisons are useful for the conservation of health": "actions good and excusable that are not lawful in themselves...
Page 79 - ... if he had listened, and laid his ear close to himself, would have heard some jarring sound of human mixture; but faint and remote, and only to be perceived by himself.