Montaigne: The EssaysG. P. Putnam's sons, 1907 - 364 strán (strany) Michel Eyquem de Montaigne's "Essays" were first published in 1580. In the depth and breadth of subject matter addressed, Socrates dictum appears to provide the guiding principle: "the unexamined life is not worth living." Seldom has a life been examined more thoroughly than that of Montaigne, who famously 'retired' from public life at 38, spending the next ten years sequestered in his library of some 1,500 works - engaged by the passion that came before all other occupations--reading and writing. The wide range of questions, chiefly investigating the reality of the human condition, presents a guide to the quest of self, the well-lived life, and independence of mind. The book presents extracts from Montaigne's "Essays" of shorter length, given the moderate compass of the volume. It introduces the English speaking reader to the inimitable essayist, in hope it will provoke further and deeper reading of this timeless author's work. |
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Strana 64 - tis not to come ; if it be not to come, it will be now ; if it be not now, yet it will come ; the readiness is all ; since no man has aught of what he leaves, what is't to leave betimes?
Strana 293 - ... solve senescentem mature sanus equum, ne peccet ad extremum ridendus et ilia ducat.
Strana xxxvii - READER, loe here a well-meaning Booke. It doth at the first entrance forewarne thee, that in contriving the same, I have proposed unto my selfe no other than a familiar and private end : I have no respect or consideration at all, either to thy service, or to my glory : my forces are not capable of any such desseigne.
Strana 213 - Aiebat, si qui comedunt bona ; cum sit obeso Nil melius turdo, nil vulva pulchrius ampla. Nimirum hie ego sum: nam tuta et parvula laudo. Cum res deficiunt, satis inter vilia fortis : Verum, ubi quid melius contingit et unctius; idem Vos sapere et solos aio bene vivere, quorum Conspicitur nitidis fundata pecunia villis.
Strana 211 - It is high time to shake off societie, since we can bring nothing to it. And he that cannot lend, let him take heed of borrowing. Our forces faile us : retire we them, and shut them up into our selves.
Strana 52 - I am now by meanes of the mercy of God in such a taking, that without regret or grieving at any worldly matter, I am prepared to dislodge, whensoever he shall please to call me: I am every where free: my farewell is soone taken of all my friends, except of my selfe.
Strana 59 - What, in ill thoughts again ? Men must endure Their going hence, even as their coming hither : Ripeness is all : Come on.
Strana 64 - Moreover, no man dies before his houre. The time you leave behinde was no more yours, than that which was before your birth, and concerneth you no more.
Strana 148 - All sports and exercises shall be a part of his study; running, wrestling, musicke, dancing, hunting, and managing of armes and horses. I would have the exterior demeanor or decencie, and the disposition of his person to be fashioned together with his mind: for, it is not a mind, it is not a body that we erect, but it is a man, and we must not make two parts of him.
Strana 135 - Quantum elargiri deceat : quem te Deus esse Jussit, et humana qua parte locatus es in re.