The Complete Essays of Montaigne
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Michel Eyquem Montaigne
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Edited by:
Donald M. Frame
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Translated by:
Donald M. Frame
and Donald M. Frame
About this book
This new translation of Montaigne's immortal Essays received great acclaim when it was first published in The Complete Works of Montaigne in the 1957 edition. The New York Times said, "It is a matter for rejoicing that we now have available a new translation that offers definite advantages over even the best of its predecessors," and The New Republic stated that this edition gives "a more adequate idea of Montaigne's manner, his straight and unpretentious style, than any of the half-dozen previous English translations." In his Essays Montaigne warns us from the outset that he has set himself "no goal but a domestic and private one"; yet he is one author whose modernity and universality have been acclaimed by each age since he wrote. Probing into his emotions, attitudes, and behavior, Montaigne reveals to us much about ourselves. As new editions of the Essays were published during his lifetime, Montaigne interpolated many new passages—often of considerable length. This volume indicates the strata of composition, so that the reader may follow the development of Montaigne's thought over the years. The detailed index provides a convenient means of locating the many famous passages that occur throughout the work.
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Frontmatter
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Introduction
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Note on the Translation
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Contents
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To the Reader (1580)
1 - Book 1
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1. By diverse means we arrive at the same end (1578-80)
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2. Of sadness (1572-74)
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3. Our feelings reach out beyond us (1572-74)
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4. How the soul discharges its passions on false objects when the true are wanting (1572-74)
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5. Whether the governor of a besieged place should go out to parley (1572-74)
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6. Parley time is dangerous (1572-74)
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7. That intention is judge of our actions (1572-74)
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8. Of idleness (1572-74)
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9. Of liars (1572-74)
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10. Of prompt or slow speech (1572-74)
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11. Of prognostications (1572-74)
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12. Of constancy (1572-74)
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13. Ceremony of interviews between kings (1572-74)
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14. That the taste of good and evil depends in large part on the opinion we have of them (1572-74)
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15. One is punished for defending a place obstinately without reason (1572-74)
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16. Of the punishment of cowardice (1572-74)
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17. A trait of certain ambassadors (1572-74)
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18. Of fear (1572-74)
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19. That our happiness must not be judged until after our death ( 1572-7 4)
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20. That to philosophize is to learn to die (1572-74)
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21. Of the power of the imagination (1572-74)
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22. One man's profit is another man's harm (1572-80)
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23. Of custom, and not easily changing an accepted law (1572-74)
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24. Various outcomes of the same plan (1572-80)
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25. Of pedantry (1572-78)
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26. Of the education of children (1579-80)
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27. It is folly to measure the true and false by our own capacity (1572-74)
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28. Of friendship (1572-76, 1578-80)
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29. Twenty-nine sonnets of Etienne de La Boetie (1578-80)
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30. Of moderation (1572-80)
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31. Of cannibals (1578-80)
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32. We should meddle soberly with judging divine ordinances (1572-74)
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33. To flee from sensual pleasures at the price of life (1572-74)
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34. Fortune is often met in the path of reason (1572-74)
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35. Of a lack in our administrations (1572-74)
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36. Of the custom of wearing clothes (1572-74)
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37. Of Cato the Younger (1572-74)
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38. How we cry and laugh for the same thing (1572-74)
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39. Of solitude (1572-74)
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40. A consideration upon Cicero ( 1572-7 4)
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41. Of not communicating one's glory (1572-74)
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42. Of the inequality that is between us (1572-74)
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43. Of sumptuary laws (1572-74)
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44. Of sleep (1572-74)
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45. Of the battle of Dreux (1572-74)
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46. Of names (1572-74)
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47. Of the uncertainty of our judgment (1572-74)
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48. Of war horses (1572-74)
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49. Of ancient customs ( 1572-80)
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50. Of Democritus and Heraclitus (1572-80)
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51. Of the vanity of words (1572-80)
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52. Of the parsimony of the ancients ( 1572-80)
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53. Of a saying of Caesar's (1572-80)
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54. Of vain subtleties (1572-80)
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55. Of smells (1572-80)
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56. Of prayers (1572-80)
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57. Of age (1572-80)
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1. Of the inconsistency of our actions (1572-74)
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2. Of drunkenness (1573-74)
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3. A custom of the island of Cea (1573-74)
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4. Let business wait till tomorrow (1573-74)
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5. Of conscience (1573-74)
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6. Of practice (1573-74)
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7. Of honorary awards (1578-80)
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8. Of the affection of fathers for their children (1578-80)
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9. Of the arms of the Parthians ( 1578-80)
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10. Of books (1578-80)
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11. Of cruelty (1578-80)
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12. Apology for Raymond Sebond (1575-76, 1578-80)
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13. Of judging of the death of others (1572-80)
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14. How our mind hinders itself (1575-76)
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15. That our desire is increased by difficulty (1575-76)
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16. Of glory (1578-80)
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17. Of presumption (1578-80)
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18. Of giving the lie (1578-80)
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19. Of freedom of conscience (1578-80)
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20. We taste nothing pure (1578-80)
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21. Against do-nothingness (1578-80)
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22. Of riding post (1578-80)
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23. Of evil means employed to a good end (1578-80)
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24. Of the greatness of Rome (1578-80)
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25. Not to counterfeit being sick (1.578-80)
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26. Of thumbs (1578-80)
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27. Cowardice, mother of cruelty (1578-80)
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28. All things have their season (1578-80)
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29. Of virtue (1578-80)
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30. Of a monstrous child (1578-80)
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31. Of anger (1578-80)
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32. Defense of Seneca and Plutarch (1578-80)
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33. The story of Spurina (1578-80)
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34. Observations on Julius Caesar's methods of making war (1578-80)
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35. Of three good women (1578-80)
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36. Of the most outstanding men (1578-80)
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37. Of the resemblance of children to fathers (1579-80)
574 - Book III
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1. Of the useful and the honorable (1585-88)
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2. Of repentance (1585-88)
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3. Of three kinds of association (1585-88)
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4. Of diversion (1585-88)
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5. On some verses of Virgil (1585-88)
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6. Of coaches (1585-88)
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7. Of the disadvantage of greatness (1585-88)
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8. Of the art of discussion (1585-88)
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9. Of vanity (1585-88)
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10. Of husbanding your will (1585-88)
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11. Of cripples (1585-88)
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12. Of physiognomy (1585-88)
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13. Of experience ( 1587-88)
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Index of Proper Names
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