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Preface
The Life of Montaigne The Letters of Montaigne The Author to the Reader BOOK ONE 1. That Men by Various Ways Arrive at the Same End 2. Of Sorrow 3. That Our Affections Carry Themselves Beyond Us 4. That the Soul Expends Its Passions Upon False Objects, Where the True Are Wanting 5. Whether the Governor of a Place Besieged Ought Himself to Go out to Parley 6. That the Hour of Parley Dangerous 7. That the Intention Is Judge of Our Actions 8. Of Idleness 9. Of Liars 10. Of Quick or Slow Speech 11. Of Prognostications 12. Of Constancy 13. The Ceremony of the Interview of Princes 14. That Men Are Justly Punished for Being Obstinate in the Defence of a Fort That Is Not in Reason to Be Defended 15. Of the Punishment of Cowardice 16. A Proceeding of Some Ambassadors 17. Of Fear 18. That Men Are Not to Judge of Our Happiness Till After Death 19. That to Study Philosopy Is to Learn to Die 20. Of the Force of Imagination 21. That the Profit of One Man Is the Damage of Another 22. Of Custom, and That We Should Not Easily Change a Law Received 23. Various Events from the Same Counsel 24. Of Pedantry 25. Of the Education of Children 26. That It Is Folly to Measure Truth and Error by Our Own Capacity 27. Of Friendship 28. Nine and Twenty Sonnets of Estienne De La Boitie 29. Of Moderation 30. Of Cannibals 31. That a Man Is Soberly to Judge of the Divine Ordinances 32. That We Are to Avoid Pleasures, Even at the Expense of Life 33. That Fortune Is Oftentimes Observed to Act by the Rule of Reason 34. Of One Defect in Our Government 35. Of the Custom of Wearing Clothes 36. Of Cato the Younger 37. That We Laugh and Cry for the Same Thing 38. Of Solitude 39. A Consideration Upon Cicero 40. That the Relish for Good and Evil Depends in Great Measure Upon the Opinion We Have of Them 41. Not to Communicate a Man's Honour 42. Of the Inequality Amoungst Us 43. Of Sumptuary Laws 44. Of Sleep 45. Of the Battle of Dreux 46. Of Names 47. Of the Uncertainty of Our Judgment 48. Of War Horses, or Destriers 49. Of Ancient Customs 50. Of Democritus and Heraclitus 51. Of the Vanity of Words 52. Of the Parsimony of the Ancients 53. Of a Saying of Caesar 54. Of Vain Subtleties 55. Of Smells 56. Of Prayers 57. Of Age BOOK TWO 1. Of the Inconstancy of Our Actions 2. Of Drunkenness 3. A Custom of the Isle of Cea 4. To-Morrow's a New Day 5. Of Conscience 6. Use Makes Perfect 7. Of Recompenses of Honour 8. Of the Affection of Fathers to Their Children 9. Of the Arms of the Parthians 10. Of Books 11. Of Cruelty 12. Apology for Raimond Sebond 13. Of Judging of the Death of Another 14. That Our Mind Hinders Itself 15. That Our Desires Are Augmented by Difficulty 16. Of Glory 17. Of Presumption 18. Of Giving the Lie 19. Of Liberty of Conscience 20. That We Taste Nothing Pure 21. Against Idleness 22. Of Posting 23. Of ILL Means Employed to a Good End 24. Of the Roman Grandeur 25. Not to Counterfeit Being Sick 26. Of Thumbs 27. Cowardice the Mother of Cruelty 28. All Things Have Their Season 29. Of Virtue 30. Of a Monstrous Child 31. Of Anger 32. Defence of Seneca and Plutarch 33. The Story of Spurina 34. Observation on the Means to Carry on a War According to Julius Caesar 35. Of Three Good Women 36. Of the Most Excellent Men 37. Of the Resemblance of Children to Their Fathers BOOK THREE 1. Of Profit and Honesty 2. Of Repentance 3. Of Three Commerces 4. Of Diversion 5. Upon Some Verses of Virgil 6. Of Coaches 7. Of the Inconvenience of Greatness 8. Of the Art of Conference 9. Of Vanity 10. Of Managing the Will 11. Of Cripples 12. Of Physiognomy 13. Of Experience |