Essays
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About this book

Considered the inventor of the essay itself, Michel de Montaigne published Essays (Essais, literally "e;Attempts"e;) in 1850. Known for his skill at merging serious intellectual debate with personal anecdotes, his vast work collects together some of the most influential essays the world has ever seen, shaping the thoughts Blaise Pascal, Rene Descartes, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Stefan Zweig, Friedrich Nietzsche, Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Isaac Asimov among others. Montaigne stated that his aim in writing these works was to describe humankind, including himself, with complete frankness.

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Table of contents

  1. Title
  2. Contents
  3. Preface
  4. The Life of Montaigne
  5. The Letters of Montaigne
  6. The Author to the Reader— (Omitted by Cotton)
  7. BOOK THE FIRST
  8. Chapter I That Men by Various Ways Arrive at the Same End
  9. Chapter II Of Sorrow
  10. Chapter III That Our Affections Carry Themselves Beyond Us
  11. Chapter IV That the Soul Expends Its Passions Upon False Objects, Where the True Are Wanting
  12. Chapter V Whether the Governor of a Place Besieged Ought Himself to Go Out to Parley
  13. Chapter VI That the Hour of Parley Dangerous
  14. Chapter VII That the Intention is Judge of Our Actions
  15. Chapter VIII Of Idleness
  16. Chapter IX Of Liars
  17. Chapter X Of Quick or Slow Speech
  18. Chapter XI Of Prognostications
  19. Chapter XII Of Constancy
  20. Chapter XIII The Ceremony of the Interview of Princes
  21. Chapter XIV That Men Are Justly Punished for Being Obstinate in the Defence of a Fort that is not in Reason to Be Defended
  22. Chapter XV Of the Punishment of Cowardice
  23. Chapter XVI A Proceeding of Some Ambassadors
  24. Chapter XVII Of Fear
  25. Chapter XVIII That Men Are not to Judge of Our Happiness Till After Death
  26. Chapter XIX That to Study Philosopy is to Learn to Die
  27. Chapter XX Of the Force of Imagination
  28. Chapter XXI That the Profit of One Man is the Damage of Another
  29. Chapter XXII Of Custom, and that We Should not Easily Change a Law Received
  30. Chapter XXIII Various Events from the Same Counsel
  31. Chapter XXIV Of Pedantry
  32. Chapter XXV Of the Education of Children
  33. Chapter XXVI That it is Folly to Measure Truth and Error by Our Own Capacity
  34. Chapter XXVII Of Friendship
  35. Chapter XXVIII Nine and Twenty Sonnets of Estienne De La Boitie
  36. Chapter XXIX Of Moderation
  37. Chapter XXX Of Cannibals
  38. Chapter XXXI That a Man is Soberly to Judge of the Divine Ordinances
  39. Chapter XXXII That We Are to Avoid Pleasures, Even at the Expense of Life
  40. Chapter XXXIII That Fortune is Oftentimes Observed to Act by the Rule of Reason
  41. Chapter XXXIV Of One Defect in Our Government
  42. Chapter XXXV Of the Custom of Wearing Clothes
  43. Chapter XXXVI Of Cato the Younger
  44. Chapter XXXVII That We Laugh and Cry for the Same Thing
  45. Chapter XXXVIII Of Solitude
  46. Chapter XXXIX A Consideration Upon Cicero
  47. Chapter XL That the Relish for Good and Evil Depends in Great Measure Upon the Opinion We Have of Them
  48. Chapter XLI Not to Communicate a Man's Honour
  49. Chapter XLII Of the Inequality Amoungst Us
  50. Chapter XLIII Of Sumptuary Laws
  51. Chapter XLIV Of Sleep
  52. Chapter XLV Of the Battle of Dreux
  53. Chapter XLVI Of Names
  54. Chapter XLVII Of the Uncertainty of Our Judgment
  55. Chapter XLVIII Of War Horses, or Destriers
  56. Chapter XLIX Of Ancient Customs
  57. Chapter L Of Democritus and Heraclitus
  58. Chapter LI Of the Vanity of Words
  59. Chapter LII Of the Parsimony of the Ancients
  60. Chapter LIII Of a Saying of Caesar
  61. Chapter LIV Of Vain Subtleties
  62. Chapter LV Of Smells
  63. Chapter LVI Of Prayers
  64. Chapter LVII Of Age
  65. BOOK THE SECOND
  66. Chapter I — Of the Inconstancy of Our Actions
  67. Chapter II Of Drunkenness
  68. Chapter III A Custom of the Isle of Cea
  69. Chapter IV To-Morrow's a New Day
  70. Chapter V Of Conscience
  71. Chapter VI Use Makes Perfect
  72. Chapter VII Of Recompenses of Honour
  73. Chapter VIII Of the Affection of Fathers to Their Children
  74. Chapter IX Of the Arms of the Parthians
  75. Chapter X Of Books
  76. Chapter XI Of Cruelty
  77. Chapter XIII Of Judging of the Death of Another
  78. Chapter XIV That Our Mind Hinders Itself
  79. Chapter XV That Our Desires Are Augmented by Difficulty
  80. Chapter XVI Of Glory
  81. Chapter XVII Of Presumption
  82. Chapter XVIII Of Giving the Lie
  83. Chapter XIX Of Liberty of Conscience
  84. Chapter XX That We Taste Nothing Pure
  85. Chapter XXI Against Idleness
  86. Chapter XXII Of Posting
  87. Chapter XXIII Of Ill Means Employed to a Good End
  88. Chapter XXIV Of the Roman Grandeur
  89. Chapter XXV Not to Counterfeit Being Sick
  90. Chapter XXVI Of Thumbs
  91. Chapter XXVII Cowardice the Mother of Cruelty
  92. Chapter XXVIII All Things Have Their Season
  93. Chapter XXIX Of Virtue
  94. Chapter XXX Of a Monstrous Child
  95. Chapter XXXI Of Anger
  96. Chapter XXXII Defence of Seneca and Plutarch
  97. Chapter XXXIII The Story of Spurina
  98. Chapter XXXIV Observation on the Means to Carry on a War According to Julius Caesar
  99. Chapter XXXV Of Three Good Women
  100. Chapter XXXVI Of the Most Excellent Men
  101. Chapter XXXVII Of the Resemblance of Children to Their Fathers
  102. BOOK THE THIRD
  103. Chapter I Of Profit and Honesty
  104. Chapter II Of Repentance
  105. Chapter III Of Three Commerces
  106. Chapter IV Of Diversion
  107. Chapter V Upon Some Verses of Virgil
  108. Chapter VI Of Coaches
  109. Chapter VII Of the Inconvenience of Greatness
  110. Chapter VIII Of the Art of Conference
  111. Chapter IX Of Vanity
  112. Chapter X Of Managing the Will
  113. Chapter XI Of Cripples
  114. Chapter XII Of Physiognomy
  115. Chapter XIII Of Experience