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  Describing it by the epithets of an animal trailing with its slime over the herbage, without blood or bones, and carrying its house


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  "This is the custom of kings: when they buy horses, they have open inspection, lest, if a fair head, as often chances, is supported by a weak foot, it should tempt the gaping purchaser


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  "And now he thought it safe to play the kind father-in-law, shedding forced tears, and from a joyful breast discharging sighs and groans


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  "Is Venus really so alarming to the new-made bride, or does she honestly oppose her parent''s rejoicing the tears she so abundantly sheds on entering the nuptial chamber


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  If Socrates and Aristippus have committed any act against manners and custom, let him not think that he is allowed to do the same; for it was by great and divine benefits that they obtained this privilege


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  Let us now come to Plutarch: Jean Bodin is a good author of our times, if a man consider the truth of the thing, and the men in themselves, There might, on the contrary, many examples be produced of great men whom rest to death, sent him word that he gave him his life, for he was a man One day, having said to those who looked to her: "Tis to the rule of living, amongst good men, is not so long as they please, but done: and ''tis a mark of singular good nature to preserve old age (of of other infirmities age has to present long-lived men withal, it had physicians fortune goes a great deal further than reason. nations are ignorant of it to this day, where men live more healthful and Man runs a very great hazard in their hands (of physicians)


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title: Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Volume 15
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  ''tis for a waking man to tell his dream."--Seneca, Ep., 53.] brave quality, and with good reason introduced; but forasmuch as ''tis a If a man does not always perform his duty, he ought at least to love and I have in my time, in a good family, seen love shamefully and long and lively descriptions in Plato of the loves of his time pretend whether a man can suffer worse from them than their jealousy; ''tis the beautiful young women, of those of good quality, should be kept three ''Tis not enough that a man''s will be good; weakness and insufficiency I love modesty; and ''tis not out of judgment that I have chosen this scandalous way of speaking; ''tis nature that has give to love over our lives, ''tis so much the better for us. First thing to be considered in love matters: a fitting time


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title: Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Volume 11
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  consider our death as a very great thing, and that does not so easily most men that they set a good face upon the matter and speak with great A short death," says Pliny, "is the sovereign good hap of human life. of a thing of importance; ''tis no great matter to live; thy servants and There is another sort of glory, which is the having too good an opinion judgment ought in all things to maintain its rights; ''tis all the reason The curiosity of knowing things has been given to man for a they do; for ''tis an easy thing to be so pleased, because a man extracts men; ''tis the first means of acquiring the favour and good liking of one He who is only a good man that men may know it He who is only a good man that men may know it We consider our death as a very great thing


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title: Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Volume 17
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  wife, the man of old being the person mentioned in Plutarch''s Life ''Tis a miserable thing to be in a place where everything you indifferent things, and receive no colour of good or ill, but according that concern a state: all that order or disorder, good or evil fortune, speak well; what can a man do when ''tis an harangue upon which his life ["''Tis the part of a wise man to keep a curbing hand upon the ''Tis a miserable slavery to a man who loves to be at full man''s house, when he has put it into a way of continuing without him, and ''Tis for good and useful writings to death share in the ease and conveniences of my life; ''tis a great part of sometimes at a great distance, and look towards one another, but ''tis I am but too much tied to the world, and to this life, of


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title: Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Volume 10
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  careful in the education of his children, by reason it is a common act, and that, according to our use, when we say a man of high worth a good their own support: as I have, in my time, seen several young men of good ''Tis not time for a gentleman of thirty years old to give place to his reason he should refer the use of those things to them, seeing that speaking of, ''tis against a poor old man and for the children, then they exercise of good offices: a word ill taken obliterates ten years'' merit; shall establish laws, and make it by good reasons appear, that private There was one Labienus at Rome, a man of great worth and authority, and itself does: but the word virtue imports, I know not what, more great and A man discerns in the soul of these two great men and their imitators


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title: Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Volume 12
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  ''Tis said of Alexander the Great, that being in bed, for fear having long before advertised him of the place and hour of his death, nor health, "An emperor," said he, "must die standing." A fine saying, in my The Emperor Julian said yet further, that a philosopher and a brave man ''Tis a generous desire to wish to die usefully and like a man, but the drawing about his gally to environ him, after having done great things in of making use of ill means to a good end. Marcus Antonius said, that the greatness of the people of Rome was not his goods, for having purposely cut off the thumb of his left hand, to That this man did not run to a certain death, I make no great receiver, and having caused him to be called to him; "Go," said he, "if I


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title: Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Volume 14
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  No man is free from speaking foolish things; but the worst on''t is, when believe so too: and ''tis no great miracle in men of his profession. ought not to require all things of all men, against private interest: and that all things are not lawful to an honest man for the service of Tis an instruction proper for the time wherein we live: we need not A man but ill proves the honour and beauty of an action by its utility: reason and nature condemn, but those also which the opinion of men, as great or greater difficulty than the others do; and private men, says parts in matters we have in hand, especially in the nature of men; mute entertaining a man''s own thoughts, according as the soul is; the greatest ''Tis folly to fix all a man''s thoughts upon it, and to engage in it with


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title: Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Volume 16
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  who has best mixed art with nature, and judgment with knowledge), his a man, but a king, so great in fortune and desert, to be broiled before fortune, and to avoid greatness, I think a very easy matter. ''Tis pity a man should be so potent that all things great thing, by reason of thy chains and rich habit; but now that we have ["''Tis the chief virtue of a prince to know his people." out a way by which they might judge by justice, and choose men by reason, Good and ill fortune are, in my opinion, two sovereign powers; ''tis folly discourses of great men ought to say, "I did not understand his words, ''Tis for the most ignorant to look at other men over the shoulder, always honour shall I have unless by great good fortune? things bow to the authority of so great witnesses.


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title: Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Volume 09
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  Antigonus, having taken one of his soldiers into a great degree of favour my life." Lucullus''s soldier having been rifled by the enemy, performed occasion to some to believe that man has two souls; other two distinct I have seen a great lord of my time, a man of high enterprise and But ''tis an old and pleasant question, whether the soul of a wise man can reason and the stoic virtue, to teach man his mortality and our weakness; accidents in life far worse to suffer than death itself. ["Father, ''tis no virtue to fear life, but to withstand great having sent his soldiers to seize upon the good old man Razis, surnamed in honour of his virtue the father of the Jews: the good man, seeing no living, had the custom, at a very old age, after having made good cheer, dying again, but a more painful death, having concluded myself as good as


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title: Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Volume 18
author: Montaigne, Michel de
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  say better, possess me: for ''tis but reason they should concern a man, Men perform like things with several sorts of ["Men having a natural desire to nourish reports." ''Tis a natural progress; for whoever believes anything, thinks it a work ''Tis hard to resolve a man''s judgment against the common opinions: the things by time and custom, but the more I frequent and the better I know other." God ought to be believed; and certainly with very good reason; common ways of men: in the brave exploits of his life, and in his death, ''Tis a great thing that he was able so to order and for me: good men, whether living or dead, have no reason to fear the that we have naturally a fear of pain, but not of death, by reason of of having it said that ''tis for want of understanding its natural use;


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title: Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Volume 19
author: Montaigne, Michel de
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  Men do not know the natural disease of the mind; it does in little things, who would come to do justice in great: that human The philosophers; with great reason, send us back to the rules of nature; Wine is hurtful to sick people, and ''tis the first thing that does not think it good for you to sleep, to drink wine, or to eat such accidents, to grow old and die in time a natural death. office to a man of such an age, to put him in mind of his end? so long continued, ''tis to be believed that nature will not alter her for ''tis then for a great while; but it has, naturally, brisk and the use of natural pleasures as in all other duties of life: well and naturally to know how to live this life; and of all the


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  wills, thoughts, opinions, goods, wives, children, honours, and lives, knowing how remote a thing such a friendship is from the common practice, I long had a man in my house that lived ten or twelve years in the New All things, says Plato,--[Laws, 10.]--are produced either by nature, by Christian to believe that all things come from God, to receive them with but it has also pleased God at other times to let us see as great of knowing one another''s occasions leave men in very great necessity. ''Tis the duty of good men to portray virtue as beautiful as they The greatest thing in the world is for a man to know that he is It appears to be reason, when a man talks of retiring from the world, other, and as great an enemy to health, which ought to be the first thing Wiser men, having great force and vigour of soul, may propose to


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title: Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Volume 07
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  So that Philip, king of Macedon, having heard that great Alexander his THAT THE RELISH FOR GOOD AND EVIL DEPENDS IN GREAT MEASURE UPON THE THAT THE RELISH FOR GOOD AND EVIL DEPENDS IN GREAT MEASURE UPON THE and pain, what the sages say, that of actions equally good, a man should a great number of Romans, his accomplices in the enterprise, as good men That our opinion gives the value to things is very manifest in the great (they are hard to find in things that a man conceives to be good), and to great and painful are the duties incumbent upon a good king.--[Plutarch, my fancy that it could be of any great benefit to the life of a man of of the greatness of this man''s courage by the rest of his life, may that kings and other great persons do by that means the more easily know


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title: Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Volume 01
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  At six years of age young Montaigne went to the At the time to which we have come, Montaigne was unknown to the world of In the towns where he stayed, Montaigne took care to see the In the midst of the cares of government, Montaigne found time to revise Montaigne, on leaving Paris, stayed a short time at Blois, to attend the Montaigne enjoyed the confidence of the principal persons of his time. observed the marks of, great natural goodness in thee; but the services Monseigneur, I pray God to grant you a very long and happy life. Monsieur, I pray God to grant you a long and happy life. Sir, I pray God to grant you a very happy and a very long life. Montaigne addressed to him the present letter.]--the King''s Councillor in respectable families, and a person who, having led an honourable life,


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title: Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Volume 03
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  had been seen to pass over the last day of their lives," by reason of the their death give a good or an ill repute to their whole life. man''s life, I always observe how he carried himself at his death; and the death is one of the greatest, as the means that accommodates human life The end of our race is death; ''tis the necessary object of our aim, man''s self with the thought of a thing so far off were folly. course of things, ''tis long since that thou hast lived by extraordinary extend and spin out the offices of life; and then let death take me inform myself, as the manner of men''s deaths, their words, looks, and entered into it; the same pass you made from death to life, without not in the length of days, but in the use of time; a man may have lived


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title: Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Volume 05
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  French book, where after I had a long time run dreaming over a great many great pains, and consume a good part of our time in training up children Madam, science is a very great ornament, and a thing of marvellous use, prefer manners and judgment to mere learning, and that this man should And for this reason, conversation with men is of very great use and things in themselves very pleasant to learn, and very useful to know. that man alone is able to value things according to their true estimate limits, let a young man, in God''s name, be rendered fit for all nations as any man in France, by asking him before a great deal of very good pretend to have their fancies full of a great many very fine things, contrary, words are to serve, and to follow a man''s purpose; and let


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title: Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Volume 04
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  estate, having the laws in their own hands, and sovereign power over men''s lives and fortunes, makes another body separate from nobility: its service and to the common opinion, as did that good and great have the power, and to whom all things are lawful that may in any way naturally of a very great daring and enterprising courage, whose good opinion, that he committed so great an error in going out, as men the man to be brought to him, that he might learn an art so necessary to the better experience of age, I find they had very great reason so to do, their times; their opinions and manners making them appear, to men of sort, for despising the ordinary actions and offices of life, for having Cry out, of one that passes by, to the people: "O, what a learned man!" without any manner of experience, made so great a captain, learned to be


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title: Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Volume 02
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  minds, beget a like effect: witness the people of Thebes, who, having put Man (in good earnest) is a marvellous vain, fickle, and unstable subject, I was by no means pleased with a story, told me by a man of very great after having heard the sentence, advancing to speak, no audience till victory, one of very great importance to their affairs, in order not to war, not reputing it a victory unless where the courage of the enemy was said, the practice of arms in these days is quite another thing, and the sight of gods and men." And so, having concluded a truce with those time and place, to make advantage of our enemies'' want of understanding, against the life of the said Duke; but coming to die, the king in his by reason that the real truth of the thing, having first taken possession having sent an ambassador to the King of England to


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title: Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Volume 08
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  think I have read that the Romans had a sort of horses by them called The Numidian men-at-arms had always a led horse in of a man or his target, took away all the use of arms and limbs. both of the men and horses, that they looked upon the first as gods and There has been seen in my time at Constantinople two men upon one horse, In petitioning or saluting any great man, they used to lay their hands A man makes a judgment of a horse, not only by seeing him when common rate in frivolous things, nowise befits a man of honour. A rhetorician of times past said, that to make little things appear great entertain so vicious an opinion of such great parts as to think any man to offend her; neither the gods nor good men (says Plato) will accept the


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title: Philosophic Nights in Paris Being selections from Promenades Philosophiques
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  He assigns a large place in life to pleasures and passions; but he that accompanies man in the course of his life," says M. It is necessary, in this great game of life, to All of us were, at a certain moment of our unborn life, fishes; There are in this theory, two things to consider: life itself, and found a man who would wish to live his life over again exactly as it advance,--a life such as the coming year brings? Even a happy life lived twice would scarcely possess times found a bitter taste to life, even among those who, like M. eye said to me one day, speaking of the Bièvre, a little stream which In olden days, when the world was happy, things were far different. Neither the leaves nor the days fall at the same time for all men, and Life, said an old man, is a regret.


