Widger's Quotations from the Project Gutenberg Editions of the Works of Montaigne
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Dec 2002 The Essays of Montaigne, V01, 1877, Cotton
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THE LIFE OF MONTAIGNE
THE LETTERS OF MONTAIGNE
Arts of persuasion, to insinuate it into our minds
Help: no other effect than that of lengthening my suffering
Judgment of great things is many times formed from lesser thing
Option now of continuing in life or of completing the voyage
Two principal guiding reins are reward and punishment
Virtue and ambition, unfortunately, seldom lodge together
Dec 2002 The Essays of Montaigne, V02, 1877, Cotton
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BOOK THE FIRST.--CHAP. I. to XII.
I. That Men by Various Ways Arrive at the Same End.
II. Of Sorrow.
III. That our affections carry themselves beyond us .
IV. That the soul discharges her passions upon false objects, where
the true are wanting.
V. Whether the governor of a place besieged ought himself to go
out to parley.
VI. That the hour of parley is dangerous.
VII. That the intention is judge of our actions.
VIII. Of idleness.
IX. Of liars.
X. Of quick or slow speech.
XI. Of prognostications.
XII. Of constancy.
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