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The Complete Essays of Montaigne
8. Of idleness (1572-74)
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June 1 1958
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June 1 1958
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DOI:
10.1515/9780804780773-011
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pp. i
Frontmatter
pp. vii
Introduction
pp. xvii
Note on the Translation
pp. xxi
Contents
pp. 1
To the Reader (1580)
pp. 3
1. By diverse means we arrive at the same end (1578-80)
pp. 6
2. Of sadness (1572-74)
pp. 8
3. Our feelings reach out beyond us (1572-74)
pp. 14
4. How the soul discharges its passions on false objects when the true are wanting (1572-74)
pp. 16
5. Whether the governor of a besieged place should go out to parley (1572-74)
pp. 18
6. Parley time is dangerous (1572-74)
pp. 19
7. That intention is judge of our actions (1572-74)
pp. 20
8. Of idleness (1572-74)
pp. 21
9. Of liars (1572-74)
pp. 25
10. Of prompt or slow speech (1572-74)
pp. 27
11. Of prognostications (1572-74)
pp. 30
12. Of constancy (1572-74)
pp. 32
13. Ceremony of interviews between kings (1572-74)
pp. 33
14. That the taste of good and evil depends in large part on the opinion we have of them (1572-74)
pp. 47
15. One is punished for defending a place obstinately without reason (1572-74)
pp. 48
16. Of the punishment of cowardice (1572-74)
pp. 49
17. A trait of certain ambassadors (1572-74)
pp. 52
18. Of fear (1572-74)
pp. 54
19. That our happiness must not be judged until after our death ( 1572-7 4)
pp. 56
20. That to philosophize is to learn to die (1572-74)
pp. 68
21. Of the power of the imagination (1572-74)
pp. 76
22. One man's profit is another man's harm (1572-80)
pp. 77
23. Of custom, and not easily changing an accepted law (1572-74)
pp. 90
24. Various outcomes of the same plan (1572-80)
pp. 97
25. Of pedantry (1572-78)
pp. 106
26. Of the education of children (1579-80)
pp. 132
27. It is folly to measure the true and false by our own capacity (1572-74)
pp. 135
28. Of friendship (1572-76, 1578-80)
pp. 145
29. Twenty-nine sonnets of Etienne de La Boetie (1578-80)
pp. 146
30. Of moderation (1572-80)
pp. 150
31. Of cannibals (1578-80)
pp. 159
32. We should meddle soberly with judging divine ordinances (1572-74)
pp. 161
33. To flee from sensual pleasures at the price of life (1572-74)
pp. 163
34. Fortune is often met in the path of reason (1572-74)
pp. 165
35. Of a lack in our administrations (1572-74)
pp. 166
36. Of the custom of wearing clothes (1572-74)
pp. 169
37. Of Cato the Younger (1572-74)
pp. 172
38. How we cry and laugh for the same thing (1572-74)
pp. 174
39. Of solitude (1572-74)
pp. 183
40. A consideration upon Cicero ( 1572-7 4)
pp. 187
41. Of not communicating one's glory (1572-74)
pp. 189
42. Of the inequality that is between us (1572-74)
pp. 196
43. Of sumptuary laws (1572-74)
pp. 198
44. Of sleep (1572-74)
pp. 200
45. Of the battle of Dreux (1572-74)
pp. 201
46. Of names (1572-74)
pp. 205
47. Of the uncertainty of our judgment (1572-74)
pp. 209
48. Of war horses (1572-74)
pp. 215
49. Of ancient customs ( 1572-80)
pp. 219
50. Of Democritus and Heraclitus (1572-80)
pp. 221
51. Of the vanity of words (1572-80)
pp. 224
53. Of a saying of Caesar's (1572-80)
pp. 224
52. Of the parsimony of the ancients ( 1572-80)
pp. 225
54. Of vain subtleties (1572-80)
pp. 228
55. Of smells (1572-80)
pp. 229
56. Of prayers (1572-80)
pp. 236
57. Of age (1572-80)
pp. 239
1. Of the inconsistency of our actions (1572-74)
pp. 244
2. Of drunkenness (1573-74)
pp. 251
3. A custom of the island of Cea (1573-74)
pp. 262
4. Let business wait till tomorrow (1573-74)
pp. 264
5. Of conscience (1573-74)
pp. 267
6. Of practice (1573-74)
pp. 275
7. Of honorary awards (1578-80)
pp. 278
8. Of the affection of fathers for their children (1578-80)
pp. 293
9. Of the arms of the Parthians ( 1578-80)
pp. 296
10. Of books (1578-80)
pp. 306
11. Of cruelty (1578-80)
pp. 318
12. Apology for Raymond Sebond (1575-76, 1578-80)
pp. 458
13. Of judging of the death of others (1572-80)
pp. 462
14. How our mind hinders itself (1575-76)
pp. 463
15. That our desire is increased by difficulty (1575-76)
pp. 468
16. Of glory (1578-80)
pp. 478
17. Of presumption (1578-80)
pp. 503
18. Of giving the lie (1578-80)
pp. 506
19. Of freedom of conscience (1578-80)
pp. 510
20. We taste nothing pure (1578-80)
pp. 512
21. Against do-nothingness (1578-80)
pp. 515
22. Of riding post (1578-80)
pp. 516
23. Of evil means employed to a good end (1578-80)
pp. 519
24. Of the greatness of Rome (1578-80)
pp. 521
25. Not to counterfeit being sick (1.578-80)
pp. 522
26. Of thumbs (1578-80)
pp. 523
27. Cowardice, mother of cruelty (1578-80)
pp. 531
28. All things have their season (1578-80)
pp. 532
29. Of virtue (1578-80)
pp. 538
30. Of a monstrous child (1578-80)
pp. 539
31. Of anger (1578-80)
pp. 545
32. Defense of Seneca and Plutarch (1578-80)
pp. 550
33. The story of Spurina (1578-80)
pp. 556
34. Observations on Julius Caesar's methods of making war (1578-80)
pp. 563
35. Of three good women (1578-80)
pp. 569
36. Of the most outstanding men (1578-80)
pp. 574
37. Of the resemblance of children to fathers (1579-80)
pp. 599
1. Of the useful and the honorable (1585-88)
pp. 610
2. Of repentance (1585-88)
pp. 621
3. Of three kinds of association (1585-88)
pp. 630
4. Of diversion (1585-88)
pp. 638
5. On some verses of Virgil (1585-88)
pp. 685
6. Of coaches (1585-88)
pp. 699
7. Of the disadvantage of greatness (1585-88)
pp. 703
8. Of the art of discussion (1585-88)
pp. 721
9. Of vanity (1585-88)
pp. 766
10. Of husbanding your will (1585-88)
pp. 784
11. Of cripples (1585-88)
pp. 792
12. Of physiognomy (1585-88)
pp. 815
13. Of experience ( 1587-88)
pp. 859
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