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Essays of Michel de Montaigne

by Michel de Montaigne

translated by Charles Cotton

edited by William Carew Hazlitt

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• Preface; The Life of Montaigne; The Letters of Montaigne
• That Men by Various Ways Arrive at the Same End; Of Sorrow; That Our Affections Carry Themselves Beyond Us; That the Soul Discharges Her Passions Upon False Objects, Where the True are Wanting; Whether the Governor of a Place Besieged Ought Himself to Go Out to Parley; That the Hour of Parley is Dangerous; That the Intention is Judge of Our Actions; Of Idleness; Of Liars; Of Quick or Slow Speech; Of Prognostications; Of Constancy
• The Ceremony of the Interview of Princes; That Men are Justly Punished for Being Obstinate in the Defence of a Fort that is not in Reason to be Defended; Of the Punishment of Cowardice; A Proceeding of Some Ambassadors; Of Fear; That Men are not to Judge of Our Happiness Till After Death; That to Study Philosophy is to Learn to Die; Of the Force of Imagination; That the Profit of One Man is the Damage of Another
• Of Custom, and That We Should not Easily Change a Law Received; Various Events from the Same Counsel; Of Pedantry
• Of the Education of Children; That it is Folly to Measure Truth and Error by Our Own Capacity
• Of Friendship; Nine-and-Twenty Sonnets of Estienne de la Boetie; Of Moderation; Of Cannibals; That a Man is Soberly to Judge of the Divine Ordinances; That We Are to Avoid Pleasures, Even at the Expense of Life; That Fortune is Oftentimes Observed to Act by the Rule of Reason; Of One Defect in Our Government; Of the Custom of Wearing Clothes; Of Cato the Younger; That We Laugh and Cry for the Same Thing; Of Solitude
• A Consideration upon Cicero; That the Relish of Good and Evil Depends in a Great Measure upon Opinion; Not to Communicate a Man's Honour; Of the Inequality Amongst Us; Of Sumptuary Laws; Of Sleep; Of the Battle of Dreux; Of Names; Of the Uncertainty of our Judgment
• Of War-Horses, or Destriers; Of Ancient Customs; Of Democritus and Heraclitus; Of the Vanity of Words; Of the Parsimony of the Ancients; Of a Saying of Caesar; Of Vain Subtleties; Of Smells; Of Prayers; Of Age
• Of the Inconstancy of Our Actions; Of Drunkenness; A Custom of the Isle of Cea; To-Morrow's a New Day; Of Conscience; Use Makes Perfect
• Of Recompenses of Honour; Of the Affection of Fathers to Their Children; Of the Arms of the Parthians; Of Books; Of Cruelty
• Of Judging of the Death of Another; That the Mind Hinders Itself; That Our Desires are Augmented by Difficulty; Of Glory; Of Presumption
• Of Giving the Lie; Of Liberty of Conscience; That We Taste Nothing Pure; Against Idleness; Of Posting; Of Ill Means Employed to a Good End; Of the Roman Grandeur; Not to Counterfeit Being Sick; Of Thumbs; Cowardice the Mother of Cruelty; All Things Have Their Season; Of Virtue; Of a Monstrous Child; Of Anger
• Defence of Seneca and Plutarch; The Story of Spurina; Means to Carry on a War According to Julius Caesar; Of Three Good Women; Of the Most Excellent Men; Of the Resemblance of Children to Their Fathers
• Of Profit and Honesty; Of Repentance; Of Three Commerces; Of Diversion
• Upon Some Verses of Virgil
• Of Coaches; Of the Inconvenience of Greatness; Of the Art of Conference
• Of Vanity
• Of Managing the Will; Of Cripples; Of Physiognomy
• Of Experience

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