Essays of Montaigne, Volume 3Reeves and Turner, 1902 |
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... condition is not so desperate as ' tis thought ; and , at the worst , God has done other miracles . " Which happens by reason that we set too much value upon ourselves ; it seems as if the universality of things were in some measure to ...
... condition is not so desperate as ' tis thought ; and , at the worst , God has done other miracles . " Which happens by reason that we set too much value upon ourselves ; it seems as if the universality of things were in some measure to ...
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... condition to defend himself . He who lies open on one side , is everywhere so ; our ances- tors did not think of building frontier garrisons . The means of assaulting , I mean without battery or army , and of surprising our houses ...
... condition to defend himself . He who lies open on one side , is everywhere so ; our ances- tors did not think of building frontier garrisons . The means of assaulting , I mean without battery or army , and of surprising our houses ...
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... condition that his virtue may be known to men : is one from whom much service is not to be expected : - " Credo ch'el reste di quel verno , cose Facesse degne di tener ne conto ; Ma fur fin ' à quel tempo si nascose , Che non è colpa ...
... condition that his virtue may be known to men : is one from whom much service is not to be expected : - " Credo ch'el reste di quel verno , cose Facesse degne di tener ne conto ; Ma fur fin ' à quel tempo si nascose , Che non è colpa ...
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... condition and ready , and am only instructed therein after the effect ; as doubtful of my own force as I am of another's . Whence it comes to pass that if I happen to do anything commendable , I attribute it more to my fortune than ...
... condition and ready , and am only instructed therein after the effect ; as doubtful of my own force as I am of another's . Whence it comes to pass that if I happen to do anything commendable , I attribute it more to my fortune than ...
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... condition , which is continually before their eyes , and within them , seeing they do not know how that moves which they themselves move , nor how to give us a description of the springs they themselves govern and make use of , how can ...
... condition , which is continually before their eyes , and within them , seeing they do not know how that moves which they themselves move , nor how to give us a description of the springs they themselves govern and make use of , how can ...
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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.