,,works ,,of ,,michel ,,de ,,montaigne ,compiled by ,david ,widger ,,contents ,,letters ,,book ,,one ,,book ,,two ,,book ,,three ,,bookmarks ,,tables ,,of ,,contents ,,of ,,volumes ,,essays ,,of ,,michel ,,de ,,montaigne ,translated by ,charles ,cotton ,edited by ,william ,carew ,hazlitt #ahgg ,,the ,,letters ,,of ,,montaigne ,,preface ,,the ,,letters ,,of ,,montaigne ,i4 ,to ,monsieur de ,,montaigne ,,ii4 ,to ,monseigneur1 ,monseigneur de ,,montaigne4 ,,iii4 ,to ,monsieur1 ,monsieur de ,,lansac1 ,,iv4 ,to ,monsieur1 ,monsieur de ,,mesmes1 ,lord of ,roissy and ,malassize1 ,privy ,v4 ,to ,monsieur1 ,monsieur de ,l',,hospital1 ,chancellor of ,france ,,vi4 ,to ,monsieur1 ,monsieur de ,folx1 ,privy ,councillor1 to the ,signory of ,venice4 ,,vii4 ,to ,mademoiselle de ,,montaigne1 my ,wife4 ,,viii4 ,to ,monsieur ,,dupuy1 ,,ix4 ,to the ,jurats of ,bordeaux4 ,x4 ,to the same4 ,,xi4 ,to the same4 ,,xii4 ,,xiii4 ,to ,mademoiselle ,,paulmier4 ,,xiv4 ,to the ,,king1 ,,henry ,,iv4 ,,xv4 ,to the same4 ,,xvi4 ,to the ,governor of ,guienne4 ,,essays ,,of ,,michel ,,de ,,montaigne ,translated by ,charles ,cotton ,edited by ,william ,carew ,hazlitt #ahgg ,,book ,,the ,,first ,,chapter ,i ,,that ,,men ,,by ,,various ,,ways ,,arrive ,,at ,,the ,,same ,,end4 ,,chapter ,,ii ,,of ,,sorrow ,,chapter ,,iii ,,that ,,our ,,affections ,,carry ,,themselves ,,beyond ,,us ,,chapter ,,iv ,,that ,,the ,,soul ,,expends ,,its ,,passions ,,upon ,,false ,,objects ,,chapter ,v ,,whether ,,the ,,governor ,,himself ,,go ,,out ,,to ,,parley ,,chapter ,,vi ,,that ,,the ,,hour ,,of ,,parley ,,dangerous ,,chapter ,,vii ,,that ,,the ,,intention ,,is ,,judge ,,of ,,our ,,actions ,,chapter ,,viii ,,of ,,idleness ,,chapter ,,ix ,,of ,,liars ,,chapter ,x ,,of ,,quick ,,or ,,slow ,,speech ,,chapter ,,xi ,,of ,,prognostications ,,chapter ,,xii ,,of ,,constancy ,,chapter ,,xiii ,,the ,,ceremony ,,of ,,the ,,interview ,,of ,,princes ,,chapter ,,xiv ,,that ,,men ,,are ,,justly ,,punished ,,for ,,being ,,obstinate ,,chapter ,,xv ,,of ,,the ,,punishment ,,of ,,cowardice ,,chapter ,,xvi ,a ,,proceeding ,,of ,,some ,,ambassadors ,,chapter ,,xvii ,,of ,,fear ,,chapter ,,xviii ,,not ,,to ,,judge ,,of ,,our ,,happiness ,,till ,,after ,,death4 ,,chapter ,,xix ,,that ,,to ,,study ,,philosopy ,,is ,,to ,,learn ,,to ,,die ,,chapter ,,xx ,,of ,,the ,,force ,,of ,,imagination ,,chapter ,,xxi ,,that ,,the ,,profit ,,of ,,one ,,man ,,is ,,the ,,damage ,,of ,,another ,,chapter ,,xxii ,,of ,,custom2 ,,we ,,should ,,not ,,easily ,,change ,a ,,law ,,received ,,chapter ,,xxiii ,,various ,,events ,,from ,,the ,,same ,,counsel ,,chapter ,,xxiv ,,of ,,pedantry ,,chapter ,,xxv ,,of ,,the ,,education ,,of ,,children ,,chapter ,,xxvi ,,folly ,,to ,,measure ,,truth ,,and ,,error ,,by ,,our ,,own ,,capacity ,,chapter ,,xxvii ,,of ,,friendship ,,chapter ,,xxviii ,,nine ,,and ,,twenty ,,sonnets ,,of ,,estienne ,,de ,,la ,,boitie ,,chapter ,,xxix ,,of ,,moderation ,,chapter ,,xxx ,,of ,,cannibals ,,chapter ,,xxxi ,,that ,a ,,man ,,is ,,soberly ,,to ,,judge ,,of ,,the ,,divine ,,ordinances ,,chapter ,,xxxii ,,we ,,are ,,to ,,avoid ,,pleasures1 ,,even ,,at ,,the ,,expense ,,of ,,life ,,chapter ,,xxxiii ,,fortune ,,is ,,often ,,observed ,,to ,,act ,,by ,,the ,,rule ,,of ,,reason ,,chapter ,,xxxiv ,,of ,,one ,,defect ,,in ,,our ,,government ,,chapter ,,xxxv ,,of ,,the ,,custom ,,of ,,wearing ,,clothes ,,chapter ,,xxxvi ,,of ,,cato ,,the ,,younger ,,chapter ,,xxxvii ,,that ,,we ,,laugh ,,and ,,cry ,,for ,,the ,,same ,,thing ,,chapter ,,xxxviii ,,of ,,solitude ,,chapter ,,xxxix ,a ,,consideration ,,upon ,,cicero ,,chapter ,,xl ,,relish ,,for ,,good ,,and ,,evil ,,depends ,,upon ,,our ,,opinion ,,chapter ,,xli ,,not ,,to ,,communicate ,a ,,man',s ,,honour ,,chapter ,,xlii ,,of ,,the ,,inequality ,,amoungst ,,us4 ,,chapter ,,xliii ,,of ,,sumptuary ,,laws ,,chapter ,,xliv ,,of ,,sleep ,,chapter ,,xlv ,,of ,,the ,,battle ,,of ,,dreux ,,chapter ,,xlvi ,,of ,,names ,,chapter ,,xlvii ,,of ,,the ,,uncertainty ,,of ,,our ,,judgment ,,chapter ,,xlviii ,,of ,,war ,,horses1 ,,or ,,destriers ,,chapter ,,xlix ,,of ,,ancient ,,customs ,,chapter ,l ,,of ,,democritus ,,and ,,heraclitus ,,chapter ,,li ,,of ,,the ,,vanity ,,of ,,words ,,chapter ,,lii ,,of ,,the ,,parsimony ,,of ,,the ,,ancients ,,chapter ,,liii ,,of ,a ,,saying ,,of ,,caesar ,,chapter ,,liv ,,of ,,vain ,,subtleties ,,chapter ,,lv ,,of ,,smells ,,chapter ,,lvi ,,of ,,prayers ,,chapter ,,lvii ,,of ,,age ,,essays ,,of ,,michel ,,de ,,montaigne ,translated by ,charles ,cotton ,edited by ,william ,carew ,hazlitt #ahgg ,,book ,,the ,,second ,,chapter ,i ,,of ,,the ,,inconstancy ,,of ,,our ,,actions ,,chapter ,,ii ,,of ,,drunkenness ,,chapter ,,iii ,a ,,custom ,,of ,,the ,,isle ,,of ,,cea ,,chapter ,,iv ,,to-,,morrow',s ,a ,,new ,,day ,,chapter ,v ,,of ,,conscience ,,chapter ,,vi ,,use ,,makes ,,perfect ,,chapter ,,vii ,,of ,,recompenses ,,of ,,honour ,,chapter ,,viii ,,of ,,the ,,affection ,,of ,,fathers ,,to ,,their ,,children ,,chapter ,,ix ,,of ,,the ,,arms ,,of ,,the ,,parthians ,,chapter ,x ,,of ,,books ,,chapter ,,xi ,,of ,,cruelty ,,chapter ,,xii ,,apology ,,for ,,raimond ,,sebond ,,chapter ,,xiii ,,of ,,judging ,,of ,,the ,,death ,,of ,,another ,,chapter ,,xiv ,,that ,,our ,,mind ,,hinders ,,itself ,,chapter ,,xv ,,that ,,our ,,desires ,,are ,,augmented ,,by ,,difficulty ,,chapter ,,xvi ,,of ,,glory ,,chapter ,,xvii ,,of ,,presumption ,,chapter ,,xviii ,,of ,,giving ,,the ,,lie ,,chapter ,,xix ,,of ,,liberty ,,of ,,conscience ,,chapter ,,xx ,,that ,,we ,,taste ,,nothing ,,pure ,,chapter ,,xxi ,,against ,,idleness ,,chapter ,,xxii ,,of ,,posting ,,chapter ,,xxiii ,,of ,,ill ,,means ,,employed ,,to ,a ,,good ,,end ,,chapter ,,xxiv ,,of ,,the ,,roman ,,grandeur ,,chapter ,,xxv ,,not ,,to ,,counterfeit ,,being ,,sick ,,chapter ,,xxvi ,,of ,,thumbs ,,chapter ,,xxvii ,,cowardice ,,the ,,mother ,,of ,,cruelty ,,chapter ,,xxviii ,,all ,,things ,,have ,,their ,,season ,,chapter ,,xxix ,,of ,,virtue ,,chapter ,,xxx ,,of ,a ,,monstrous ,,child ,,chapter ,,xxxi ,,of ,,anger ,,chapter ,,xxxii ,,defence ,,of ,,seneca ,,and ,,plutarch ,,chapter ,,xxxiii ,,the ,,story ,,of ,,spurina ,,chapter ,,xxxiv ,,observation ,,on ,a ,,war ,,according ,,to ,,julius ,,caesar ,,chapter ,,xxxv ,,of ,,three ,,good ,,women ,,chapter ,,xxxvi ,,of ,,the ,,most ,,excellent ,,men ,,chapter ,,xxxvii ,,of ,,the ,,resemblance ,,of ,,children ,,to ,,their ,,fathers ,,essays ,,of ,,michel ,,de ,,montaigne ,translated by ,charles ,cotton ,edited by ,william ,carew ,hazlitt #ahgg ,,book ,,the ,,third ,,chapter ,i ,,of ,,profit ,,and ,,honesty ,,chapter ,,ii ,,of ,,repentance ,,chapter ,,iii ,,of ,,three ,,commerces ,,chapter ,,iv ,,of ,,diversion ,,chapter ,v ,,upon ,,some ,,verses ,,of ,,virgil ,,chapter ,,vi ,,of ,,coaches ,,chapter ,,vii ,,of ,,the ,,inconvenience ,,of ,,greatness ,,chapter ,,viii ,,of ,,the ,,art ,,of ,,conference ,,chapter ,,ix ,,of ,,vanity ,,chapter ,x ,,of ,,managing ,,the ,,will ,,chapter ,,xi ,,of ,,cripples ,,chapter ,,xii ,,of ,,physiognomy ,,chapter ,,xiii ,,of ,,experience ,,apology ,,project ,,gutenberg ,,editor',s ,,bookmarks ,,essays ,,of ,,michel ,,de ,,montaigne ,,bookmarks ,,click ,,here ,,to ,,search ,,the ,,entire ,,essays ,,for ,a ,,portion ,,of ,,any ,,of ,,the ,,quotations ,,below ,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 thought ,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 study1 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 else1 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 joy1 but1 as much as he can1 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 thou1 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 certain1 port ,admiration is the foundation of all philosophy ,advantageous1 too1 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 husbands1 7not7 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 ,agesilaus1 what he thought most proper for boys to learn8 ,agitated betwixt hope and fear ,agitation has usurped the place of reason ,alexander said1 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 7death7 ,all defence shows a face of war ,all ,i aim at is1 to pass my time at my ease ,all ,i say is by way of discourse1 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 seasons1 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 8,an emperor10 said he1 8must die standing0 ,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 life2 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 him1 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 more1 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 over1 misses as much as he that falls short ,armed parties 7the true school of treason1 inhumanity1 robbery7 ,arrogant ignorance ,art that could come to the knowledge of but few persons 8,art thou not ashamed10 said he to him1 8to sing so well80 ,arts of persuasion1 to insinuate it into our minds ,as great a benefit to be without 7children7 ,as if anything were so common as ignorance ,as if impatience were of itself a better remedy than patience ,as we were formerly by crimes1 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 least1 if they do no good1 they will do no harm ,at the most1 but patch you up1 and prop you a little ,attribute facility of belief to simplicity and ignorance ,attribute to itself2 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 violence6 away with this compulsion6 ,bashfulness is an ornament to youth1 but a reproach to old age ,be not angry to no purpose ,be on which side you will1 you have as fair a game to play ,bears well a changed fortune1 acting both parts equally well ,beast of company1 as the ancient said1 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-studious1 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 again1 still smile upon me with fresh novelty ,books of things that were never either studied or understood ,both himself and his posterity declared ignoble1 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 them1 have given them a title to do ill 8,by the gods10 said he1 8if ,i was not angry1 ,i would execute you0 ,by the misery of this life1 aiming at bliss in another ,caesar3 he would be thought an excellent engineer to boot ,caesar's choice of death3 8the shortest0 ,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 said3 ,so many servants1 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 ,chess3 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 ,cicero3 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 shoulder1 my cap on one side1 a stocking disordered ,college3 a real house of correction of imprisoned youth ,coming out of the same hole ,commit themselves to the common fortune ,common consolation1 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 wine1 because some people will be drunk ,confession enervates reproach and disarms slander ,confidence in another man's virtue ,conscience makes us betray1 accuse1 and fight against ourselves ,conscience1 which we pretend to be derived from nature ,consent1 and complacency in giving a man's self up to melancholy ,consoles himself upon the utility and eternity of his writings ,content3 more easily found in want than in abundance ,counterfeit condolings of pretenders ,courageous in death1 not because his soul is immortal,socrates ,courtesy and good manners is a very necessary study ,crafty humility that springs from presumption ,crates did worse1 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 8,custom10 replied ,plato1 8is no little thing0 ,customs and laws make justice ,dangerous man you have deprived of all means to escape ,dangers do1 in truth1 little or nothing hasten our end ,dearness is a good sauce to meat ,death can1 whenever we please1 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 ,cicero1 coveted by ,cato ,death of old age the most rare and very seldom seen ,deceit maintains and supplies most men's employment ,decree that says1 8,the court understands nothing of the matter0 ,defence allures attempt1 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 solicitation1 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 ,desires1 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 wellthat is1 patiently and tranquilly ,difference betwixt memory and understanding ,difficulty gives all things their estimation ,dignify our fopperies when we commit them to the press ,diogenes1 esteeming us no better than flies or bladders ,discover what there is of good and clean in the bottom of the po ,disdainful1 contemplative1 serious and grave as the ass ,disease had arrived at its period or an effect of chance8 ,disgorge what we eat in the same condition it was swallowed ,disguise1 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 not1 nevertheless1 always believe myself ,do thine own work1 and know thyself ,doctors3 more felicity and duration in their own lives8 ,doctrine much more intricate and fantastic than the thing itself ,dost thou1 then1 old man1 collect food for others' ears8 ,doubt whether those 7old writings7 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 life1 or happy death ,eloquence prejudices the subject it would advance ,emperor ,julian1 surnamed the ,apostate ,endeavouring to be brief1 ,i become obscure ,engaged in the avenues of old age1 being already past forty ,enough to do to comfort myself1 without having to console others ,enslave our own contentment to the power of another8 ,enters lightly into a quarrel is apt to go as lightly out of it ,entertain us with fables3 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 death2 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 ,examine1 who is better learned1 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 ,fame3 an echo1 a dream1 nay1 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 thing1 which being lost1 cannot be lamented8 ,fear was not that ,i should do ill1 but that ,i should do nothing ,fear3 begets a terrible astonishment and confusion ,feared1 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 mistress1 who have not repented it ,first informed who were to be the other guests ,first thing to be considered in love matters3 a fitting time ,flatterer in your old age or in your sickness ,follies do not make me laugh1 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 sense8 ,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 ,fox1 who found fault with what he could not obtain ,friend1 it is not now time to play with your nails ,friend1 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 history1 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 ourselves1 because we know not how there to reside ,good does not necessarily succeed evil2 another evil may succeed ,good to be certain and finite1 and evil1 infinite and uncertain ,got up but an inch upon the shoulders of the last1 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 apprehensions1 from things unseen1 concealed ,greatest talkers1 for the most part1 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 commendable1 ,i attribute it to fortune ,hard to resolve a man's judgment against the common opinions ,haste trips up its own heels1 fetters1 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 journey1 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 dying8 ,having too good an opinion of our own worth ,he cannot be good1 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 passion1 who can make no use of his reason ,he may well go a foot1 they say1 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 himself1 as well as in others ,he took himself along with him ,he who fears he shall suffer1 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 everywhere1 lives nowhere ,he who provides for all1 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 imagination1 and then we find fault ,help3 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 ,homer3 ,the only words that have motion and action ,honour of valour consists in fighting1 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 us8 8,how many things10 said he1 8,i do not desire60 ,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 out1 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 heavy1 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 now1 but what it was then ,i do not judge opinions by years ,i do not much lament the dead1 and should envy them rather ,i do not say that #8tis well said1 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 time1 than be old before old age ,i hail and caress truth in what quarter soever ,i find it ,i hate all sorts of tyranny1 both in word and deed ,i hate poverty equally with pain ,i have a great aversion from a novelty 8,i have done nothing to-day08,what8 have you not lived80 ,i have lived longer by this one day than ,i should have done ,i have no mind to die1 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 opinions2 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 afar2 ,i can laugh at myself ,i owe it rather to my fortune than my reason ,i receive but little advice1 ,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 truth1 not so much as ,i would1 but as much as ,i dare ,i take hold of1 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 8,i wish you good health08,no health to thee0 replied the other ,i would as willingly be lucky as wise ,i would be rich of myself1 and not by borrowing ,i write my book for few men and for few years ,idleness is to me a very painful labour ,idleness1 the mother of corruption ,if a passion once prepossess and seize me1 it carries me away ,if ,i am talking my best1 whoever interrupts me1 stops me ,if ,i stand in need of anger and inflammation1 ,i borrow it ,if it be a delicious medicine1 take it ,if it be the writer's wit or borrowed from some other ,if nature do not help a little1 it is very hard ,if they can only be kind to us out of pity ,if they chop upon one truth1 that carries a mighty report ,if they hear no noise1 they think men sleep ,if to philosophise be1 as #8tis defined1 to doubt ,ignorance does not offend me1 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 natures1 thou layest aside thy own ,immoderate either seeking or evading glory or reputation ,impose them upon me as infallible ,impostures3 very strangeness lends them credit ,improperly we call this voluntary dissolution1 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 solitude1 be company for thyself,tibullus ,in sorrow there is some mixture of pleasure ,in the meantime1 their halves were begging at their doors ,in this last scene of death1 there is no more counterfeiting ,in those days1 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 7in civil war7 ,indiscreet desire of a present cure1 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 incites1 and who are more eager1 being forbidden ,it 7my books7 may know many things that are gone from me ,it happens1 as with cages1 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 read1 #8tis 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 ,jealousy3 no remedy but flight or patience ,judge by justice1 and choose men by reason ,judge by the eye of reason1 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 come1 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 others1 wherein the honour consists ,known evil was ever more supportable than one that was1 new ,ladies are no sooner ours1 than we are no more theirs ,language3 obscure and unintelligible in wills and contracts ,lascivious poet3 ,homer ,last death will kill but a half or a quarter of a man ,law3 breeder of altercation and division ,laws 7of ,plato on travel71 which forbids it after threescore ,laws cannot subsist without mixture of injustice ,laws do what they can1 when they cannot do what they would ,laws keep up their credit1 not for being justbut 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 enough1 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 unsaid1 how home and bitter soever ,led by the ears by this charming harmony of words ,lend himself to others1 and only give himself to himself ,lessen the just value of things that ,i possess 8,let a man take which course he will10 said he2 8he will repent0 ,let him be as wise as he will1 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 ourselves2 #8tis in us ,liberality at the expense of others ,liberty and laziness1 the qualities most predominant in me ,liberty of poverty ,liberty to lean1 but not to lay our whole weight upon others ,library3 ,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 speak3 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 ,live1 not so long as they please1 but as long as they ought ,living is slavery if the liberty of dying be wanting ,living well1 which of all arts is the greatest ,llaying the fault upon the patient1 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 habit2 habit1 consent and imitation ,look on death not only without astonishment but without care ,look upon themselves as a third person only1 a stranger ,look1 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 ,love1 full1 lively1 and sharp2 a pleasure inflamed by difficulty ,loved them for our sport1 like monkeys1 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 folly1 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 7must7 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 7of physicians7 ,mark of singular good nature to preserve old age ,marriage ,marriage rejects the company and conditions of love ,melancholy3 ,are there not some constitutions that feed upon it8 ,memories are full enough1 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 7the rules7 without their 7women's7 help ,men must embark1 and not deliberate1 upon high enterprises ,men should furnish themselves with such things as would float ,mercenaries who would receive any 7pay7 ,merciful to the man1 but not to his wickedness,aristotle ,methinks ,i am no more than half of myself ,methinks ,i promise it1 if ,i but say it ,miracle3 everything our reason cannot comprehend ,miracles and strange events have concealed themselves from me ,miracles appear to be so1 according to our ignorance of nature ,miserable kind of remedy1 to owe one's health to one's disease6 ,miserable1 who has not at home where to be by himself ,misfortunes that only hurt us by being known ,mix railing1 indiscretion1 and fury in his disputations ,moderation is a virtue that gives more work than suffering ,modesty is a foolish virtue in an indigent person 7,homer7 ,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 us1 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 people1 and upon frivolous occasions1 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 example1 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 alters1 my judgment does not ,my books3 from me hold that which ,i have not retained ,my dog unseasonably importunes me to play ,my fancy does not go by itself1 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 one2 little vigour and no art ,my mind is easily composed at distance ,my reason is not obliged to bow and bend2 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 ,nature1 who left us in such a state of imperfection ,nearest to the opinions of those with whom they have to do ,negligent garb1 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 much1 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 sign1 how false or absurd ,never represent things to you simply as they are ,never spoke of my money1 but falsely1 as others do ,new ,world3 sold it opinions and our arts at a very dear rate ,none that less keep their promise 7than physicians7 ,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 them1 though they may do us no good ,no doing more difficult than that not doing1 nor more active ,no effect of virtue1 to have stronger arms and legs ,no evil is honourable2 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 age1 ,i throw myself back upon that other ,no way found to tranquillity that is good in common ,noble and rich1 where examples of virtue are rarely lodged ,nobody prognosticated that ,i should be wicked1 but only useless ,noise of arms deafened the voice of laws ,none of the sex1 let her be as ugly as the devil thinks lovable ,nor get children but before ,i sleep1 nor get them standing ,nor have other tie upon one another1 but by our word ,nosegay of foreign flowers1 having furnished nothing of my own ,not a victory that puts not an end to the war ,not being able to govern events1 ,i govern myself ,not believe from one1 ,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 profit1 but for the honour of honesty itself ,not having been able to pronounce one syllable1 which is ,no6 ,not in a condition to lend must forbid himself to borrow ,not melancholic1 but meditative ,not to instruct but to be instructed ,not want1 but rather abundance1 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 believed1 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 grossly1 nor so ordinarily faulty1 as the laws ,nothing tempts my tears but tears ,nothing that so poisons as flattery ,number of fools so much exceeds the wise ,o ,athenians1 what this man says1 ,i will do ,o my friends1 there is no friend3 ,aristotle ,o wretched men1 whose pleasures are a crime ,o1 the furious advantage of opportunity6 ,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 marriage1 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 8,voluntary ,servitude0 ,occasions of the least lustre are ever the most dangerous ,occupy our thoughts about the general1 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 age3 applaud the past and condemn the present ,old men who retain the memory of things past ,omit1 as incredible1 such things as they do not understand ,on all occasions to contradict and oppose ,one door into life1 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 times1 but cannot fly from the present ,one must first know what is his own and what is not ,only desire to become more wise1 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 discoveries1 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 brain1 it will there be much better ,order it so that your virtue may conquer your misfortune ,ordinances it 7,medicine7foists upon us ,ordinary friendships1 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 hands1 but his eyes1 too1 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 will1 both with itself and us ,our judgments are yet sick ,our justice presents to us but one hand ,our knowledge1 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 things1 because they are foreign1 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 are1 they are yet simply men ,perfection3 but ,i will not buy it so dear as it costs ,perpetual scolding of his wife 7of ,socrates7 ,petulant madness contends with itself ,philopoemen3 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 ,physician3 pass through all the diseases he pretends to cure ,physician's 8help01 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 ,physicians3 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 ,egyptians1 that they were all physicians ,plato says1 that the gods made man for their sport ,plato will have nobody marry before thirty ,plato3 lawyers and physicians are bad institutions of a country ,plays of children are not performed in play ,pleasing all3 a mark that can never be aimed at or hit ,pleasure of telling 7a pleasure little inferior to that of doing ,possession begets a contempt of what it holds and rules ,practical ,jokes3 ,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 bed1 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 man1 when ,i imagine him in this posture ,psalms of ,king ,david3 promiscuous1 indiscreet ,public weal requires that men should betray1 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 books1 converse with the great and heroic souls ,reasons often anticipate the effect ,recommendation of strangeness1 rarity1 and dear purchase ,refusin to justify1 excuse1 or explain myself ,regret so honourable a post1 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 ,reputation3 most useless1 frivolous1 and false coin that passes ,repute for value in them1 not what they bring to us ,reserve a backshop1 wholly our own and entirely free ,resolved to bring nothing to it but expectation and patience ,rest satisfied1 without desire of prolongation of life or name ,restoring what has been lent us1 wit usury and accession ,revenge more wounds our children than it heals us ,revenge1 which afterwards produces a series of new cruelties ,reverse of truth has a hundred thousand forms ,rhetoric3 an art to flatter and deceive ,rhetoric3 to govern a disorderly and tumultuous rabble ,richer than we think we are2 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 asperity1 suspense1 or favour ,see how flexible our reason is ,seek the quadrature of the circle1 even when on their wives ,seeming anger1 for the better governing of my house ,send us to the better air of some other country ,sense3 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 ,sex3 ,to put fools and wise men1 beasts and us1 on a level ,shake the truth of our ,church by the vices of her ministers ,shame for me to serve1 being so near the reach of liberty ,sharps and sweets of marriage1 are kept secret by the wise ,she who only refuses1 because #8tis forbidden1 consents ,shelter my own weakness under these great reputations ,short of the foremost1 but before the last ,should first have mended their breeches ,silence1 therefore1 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 ,slaves1 or exiles1 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 carriageof physicians ,so many trillions of men1 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 languishing1 as not to have even wishing left to him ,socrates kept a confounded scolding wife ,socrates3 ,according to what a man can ,soft1 easy1 and wholesome pillow is ignorance and incuriosity ,solon said that eating was physic against the malady hunger ,solon1 that none can be said to be happy until he is dead some people rude1 by being overcivil in their courtesy ,some wives covetous indeed1 but very few that are good managers ,sometimes the body first submits to age1 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 wife1 children1 and goods ,stilpo3 thank ,god1 nothing was lost of his ,strangely suspect all this merchandise3 medical care ,strong memory is commonly coupled with infirm judgment ,studied1 when young1 for ostentation1 now for diversion ,studies1 to teach me to do1 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 justice1 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 ,suicide3 a morsel that is to be swallowed without chewing ,superstitiously to seek out in the stars the ancient causes ,swell and puff up their souls1 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 worst1 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 custom8 ,that he could neither read nor swim ,that looks a nice well-made shoe to you ,that we may live1 we cease to live ,that which cowardice itself has chosen for its refuge ,the action is commendable1 not the man ,the age we live in produces but very indifferent things ,the authors1 with whom ,i converse ,the ,babylonians carried their sick into the public square ,the best authors too much humble and discourage me ,the ,bible3 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 nature1 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 living1 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 delivery1 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 modesty1 if it be not rude ,there is no long1 nor short1 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 sleepy1 sluggish sort of men are often the most dangerous ,they 7good women7 are not by the dozen1 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 heart1 they see but my countenance ,they err as much who too much forbear ,venus ,they gently name them1 so they patiently endure them 7diseases7 ,they have heard1 they have seen1 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 please1 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 aim1 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 done1 if anything remained to be done ,thinks nothing profitable that is not painful ,this decay of nature which renders him useless1 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 are1 peradventure1 most to be fear ,those who can please and hug themselves in what they do ,those within 7marriage7 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 forme1 ,i do not tie the world unto it ,though nobody should read me1 have ,i wasted time ,threats of the day of judgment ,thucydides3 which was the better wrestler ,thy own cowardice is the cause1 if thou livest in pain ,tis all swine's flesh1 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 matter2 it may be of use to some others ,tis not the cause1 but their interest1 that inflames them ,tis not the number of men1 but the number of good men ,tis said of ,epimenides1 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 correction1 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 slave1 incessantly to be led by the nose by one's self ,to be1 not to seem ,to condemn them as impossible1 is by a temerarious presumption ,to contemn what we do not comprehend ,to die of old age is a death rare1 extraordinary1 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 folly1 as ,i do1 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 men1 a clear and strong light is required ,to know by rote1 is no knowledge ,to make little things appear great was his profession ,to make their private advantage at the public expense ,to smell1 though well1 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 good8 ,tongue will grow too stiff to bend ,too contemptible to be punished ,torture3 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 necessary1 but a handsome equipage ,true liberty is to be able to do what a man will with himself ,truly he1 with a great effort will shortly say a mighty trifle ,truth itself has not the privilege to be spoken at all times ,truth1 that for being older it is none the wiser ,turks have alms and hospitals for beasts ,turn up my eyes to heaven to return thanks1 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 alike1 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 favour1 to prepare myself for her disgrace ,universal judgments that ,i see so common1 signify nothing ,unjust judges of their actions1 as they are of ours ,unjust to exact from me what ,i do not owe ,upon the precipice1 #8tis 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 neighbour1 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 together1 if a man have not a care ,victorious envied the conquered ,virtue and ambition1 unfortunately1 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 rabble1 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 hang2 we correct others by him ,we do not easily accept the medicine we understand ,we do not go1 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 pain1 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 ,weigh1 as wise3 men should1 the burden of obligation ,well1 and what if it had been death itself8 ,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 precepts8 ,what can they not do1 what do they fear to do 7for beauty7 ,what can they suffer who do not fear to die8 ,what did ,i say8 that ,i have8 no1 ,chremes1 ,i had ,what he did by nature and accident1 he cannot do by design ,what is more accidental than reputation8 ,what may be done to-morrow1 may be done to-day ,what more8 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 best3 8,that of another0 ,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 seen1 we are forced to receive from other hands ,what1 shall so much knowledge be lost ,whatever was not ordinary diet1 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 it1 we want something else 8,when will this man be wise10 said he1 8if he is yet learning80 ,when you see me moved first1 let me alone1 right or wrong ,where the lion's skin is too short ,where their profit is1 let them there have their pleasure too ,wherever the mind is perplexed1 it is in an entire disorder ,whilst thou wast silent1 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 fool1 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 life1 is always master ,why do we not imitate the ,roman architecture8 ,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 excesses1 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 ought1 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 fools1 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 man1 must put off her modesty ,women who paint1 pounce1 and plaster up their ruins ,wont to give others their life1 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 arrogance1 wholly believing and trusting in itself ,wretched and dangerous thing to depend upon others ,write what he knows1 and as much as he knows1 but no more ,wrong the just side when they go about to assist it with fraud ,yet at least for ambition's sake1 let us reject ambition ,yet do we find any end of the need of interpretating8 ,you and companion are theatre enough to one another ,you have lost a good captain1 to make of him a bad general ,you may indeed make me die an ill death ,you must first see us die ,you must let yourself down to those with whom you converse ,young and old die upon the same terms ,young are to make their preparations1 the old to enjoy them