## QUOTES AND IMAGES FROM MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

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    Title: Quotes and Images From The Works of Michel De Montaigne

    Author: Michel De Montaigne
                Edited and Arranged by David Widger

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# THE ESSAYS OF MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

## QUOTATIONS FROM THE FIVE VOLUMES

### With Five Etchings

>     A child should not be brought up in his mother's lap
>     A gallant man does not give over his pursuit for being refused
>     A generous heart ought not to belie its own thoughts
>     A hundred more escape us than ever come to our knowledge
>     A lady could not boast of her chastity who was never tempted
>     A little cheese when a mind to make a feast
>     A little thing will turn and divert us
>     A man may always study, but he must not always go to school
>     A man may govern himself well who cannot govern others so
>     A man may play the fool in everything else, but not in poetry
>     A man must either imitate the vicious or hate them
>     A man must have courage to fear
>     A man never speaks of himself without loss
>     A man should abhor lawsuits as much as he may
>     A man should diffuse joy, but, as much as he can, smother grief
>     A man's accusations of himself are always believed
>     A parrot would say as much as that
>     A person's look is but a feeble warranty
>     A well-bred man is a compound man
>     A well-governed stomach is a great part of liberty
>     A word ill taken obliterates ten years' merit
>     Abhorrence of the patient are necessary circumstances
>     Abominate that incidental repentance which old age brings
>     Accept all things we are not able to refute
>     Accommodated my subject to my strength
>     Accursed be thou, as he that arms himself for fear of death
>     Accusing all others of ignorance and imposition
>     Acquiesce and submit to truth
>     Acquire by his writings an immortal life
>     Addict thyself to the study of letters
>     Addresses his voyage to no certain, port
>     Admiration is the foundation of all philosophy
>     Advantageous, too, a little to recede from one's right
>     Advise to choose weapons of the shortest sort
>     Affect words that are not of current use
>     Affection towards their husbands, (not) until they have lost them
>     Affirmation and obstinacy are express signs of want of wit
>     Affright people with the very mention of death
>     Against my trifles you could say no more than I myself have said
>     Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face
>     Agesilaus, what he thought most proper for boys to learn?
>     Agitated betwixt hope and fear
>     Agitation has usurped the place of reason
>     Alexander said, that the end of his labour was to labour
>     All actions equally become and equally honour a wise man
>     All apprentices when we come to it (death)
>     All defence shows a face of war
>     All I aim at is, to pass my time at my ease
>     All I say is by way of discourse, and nothing by way of advice
>     All judgments in gross are weak and imperfect
>     All over-nice solicitude about riches smells of avarice
>     All things have their seasons, even good ones
>     All think he has yet twenty good years to come
>     All those who have authority to be angry in my family
>     Almanacs
>     Always be parading their pedantic science
>     Always complaining is the way never to be lamented
>     Always the perfect religion
>     Am as jealous of my repose as of my authority
>     An advantage in judgment we yield to none
>     "An emperor," said he, "must die standing"
>     An ignorance that knowledge creates and begets
>     Ancient Romans kept their youth always standing at school
>     And hate him so as you were one day to love him
>     And we suffer the ills of a long peace
>     Anger and hatred are beyond the duty of justice
>     Any argument if it  be carried on with method
>     Any old government better than change and alteration
>     Any one may deprive us of life; no one can deprive us of death
>     Anything appears greatest to him that never knew a greater
>     Anything becomes foul when commended by the multitude
>     Anything of value in him, let him make it appear in his conduct
>     Appetite comes to me in eating
>     Appetite is more sharp than one already half-glutted by the eyes
>     Appetite runs after that it has not
>     Appetite to read more, than glutted with that we have
>     Applaud his judgment than commend his knowledge
>     Apprenticeship and a resemblance of death
>     Apprenticeships that are to be served beforehand
>     Apt to promise something less than what I am able to do
>     Archer that shoots over, misses as much as he that falls short
>     Armed parties (the true school of treason, inhumanity,  robbery
>     Arrogant ignorance
>     Art that could come to the knowledge of but few persons
>     "Art thou not ashamed," said he to him, "to sing so well?"
>     Arts of persuasion, to insinuate it into our minds
>     As great a benefit to be without (children)
>     As if anything were so common as ignorance
>     As if impatience were of itself a better remedy than patience
>     As we were formerly by crimes, so we are now overburdened by law
>     Ashamed to lay out as much thought and study upon it
>     Assurance they give us of the certainty of their drugs
>     At least, if they do no good, they will do no harm
>     At the most, but patch you up, and prop you a little
>     Attribute facility of belief to simplicity and ignorance
>     Attribute to itself; all the happy successes that happen
>     Authority of the number and antiquity of the witnesses
>     Authority to be dissected by the vain fancies of men
>     Authority which a graceful presence and a majestic mien beget
>     Avoid all magnificences that will in a short time be forgotten
>     Away with that eloquence that enchants us with itself
>     Away with this violence!  away with this compulsion!
>     Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age
>     Be not angry to no purpose
>     Be on which side you will, you have as fair a game to play
>     Bears well a changed fortune, acting both parts equally well
>     Beast of company, as the ancient said, but not of the herd
>     Beauty of stature is the only beauty of men
>     Because the people know so well how to obey
>     Become a fool by too much wisdom
>     Being as impatient of commanding as of being commanded
>     Being dead they were then by one day happier than he
>     Being over-studious, we impair our health and spoil our humour
>     Belief compared to the impression of a seal upon the soul
>     Believing Heaven concerned at our ordinary actions
>     Best part of a captain to know how to make use of occasions
>     Best test of truth is the multitude of believers in a crowd
>     Best virtue I have has in it some tincture of vice
>     Better at speaking than writing—Motion and action animate word
>     Better have none at all than to have them in so prodigious a number
>     Better to be alone than in foolish and troublesome company
>     Blemishes of the great naturally appear greater
>     Books go side by side with me in my whole course
>     Books have many charming qualities to such as know how to choose
>     Books have not so much served me for instruction as exercise
>     Books I read over again, still smile upon me with  fresh novelty
>     Books of things that were never either studied or understood
>     Both himself and his posterity declared ignoble, taxable
>     Both kings and philosophers go to stool
>     Burnt and roasted for opinions taken upon trust from others
>     Business to-morrow
>     But ill proves the honour and beauty of an action by its utility
>     But it is not enough that our education does not spoil us
>     By resenting the lie we acquit ourselves of the fault
>     By suspecting them, have given them a title to do ill
>     "By the gods," said he, "if I was not angry, I would execute you"
>     By the misery of this life, aiming at bliss in another
>     Caesar: he would be thought an excellent engineer to boot
>     Caesar's choice of death: "the shortest"
>     Can neither keep nor enjoy anything with a good grace
>     Cannot stand the liberty of a friend's advice
>     Carnal appetites only supported by use and exercise
>     Cato said: So many servants, so many enemies
>     Ceremony forbids us to express by words things that are lawful
>     Certain other things that people hide only to show them
>     Change is to be feared
>     Change of fashions
>     Change only gives form to injustice and tyranny
>     Cherish themselves most where they are most wrong
>     Chess: this idle and childish game
>     Chiefly knew himself to be mortal by this act
>     Childish ignorance of many very ordinary things
>     Children are amused with toys and men with words
>     Cicero: on fame
>     Civil innocence is measured according to times and places
>     Cleave to the side that stood most in need of her
>     cloak on one shoulder, my cap on one side, a stocking disordered
>     College: a real house of correction of imprisoned youth
>     Coming out of the same hole
>     Commit themselves to the common fortune
>     Common consolation, discourages and softens me
>     Common friendships will admit of division
>     Conclude the depth of my sense by its obscurity
>     Concluding no beauty can be greater than what they see
>     Condemn all violence in the education of a tender soul
>     Condemn the opposite affirmation equally
>     Condemnations have I seen more criminal than the crimes
>     Condemning wine, because some people will be drunk
>     Confession enervates reproach and disarms slander
>     Confidence in another man's virtue
>     Conscience makes us betray, accuse, and fight against ourselves
>     Conscience, which we pretend to be derived from nature
>     Consent, and complacency in giving a man's self up to melancholy
>     Consoles himself upon the utility and eternity of his writings
>     Content: more easily found in want than in abundance
>     Counterfeit condolings of pretenders
>     Courageous in death, not because his soul is immortal—Socrates
>     Courtesy and good manners is a very necessary study
>     Crafty humility that springs from presumption
>     Crates did worse, who threw himself into the liberty of poverty
>     Cruelty is the very extreme of all vices
>     Culling out of several books the sentences that best please me
>     Curiosity and of that eager passion for news
>     Curiosity of knowing things has been given to man for a scourge
>     "Custom," replied Plato, "is no little thing"
>     Customs and laws make justice
>     Dangerous  man you have deprived of all means to escape
>     Dangers do, in truth, little or nothing hasten our end
>     Dearness is a good sauce to meat
>     Death can, whenever we please, cut short inconveniences
>     Death conduces more to birth and augmentation than to loss
>     Death discharges us of all our obligations
>     Death has us every moment by the throat
>     Death is a part of you
>     Death is terrible to Cicero, coveted by Cato
>     Death of old age the most rare and very seldom seen
>     Deceit maintains and supplies most men's employment
>     Decree that says, "The court understands nothing of the matter"
>     Defence allures attempt, and defiance provokes an enemy
>     Defend most the defects with which we are most tainted
>     Defer my revenge to another and better time

>     Deformity of the first cruelty makes me abhor all imitation
>     Delivered into our own custody the keys of life
>     Denying all solicitation, both of hand and mind
>     Depend as much upon fortune as anything else we do
>     Desire of riches is more sharpened by their use than by the need
>     Desire of travel
>     Desires, that still increase as they are fulfilled
>     Detest in others the defects which are more manifest in us
>     Did my discourses came only from my mouth or from my heart
>     Did not approve all sorts of means to obtain a victory
>     Die well—that is, patiently and tranquilly
>     Difference betwixt memory and understanding
>     Difficulty gives all things their estimation
>     Dignify our fopperies when we commit them to the press
>     Diogenes, esteeming us no better than flies or bladders
>     Discover what there is of good and clean in the bottom of the po
>     Disdainful, contemplative, serious and grave as the ass
>     Disease had arrived at its period or an effect of chance?
>     Disgorge what we eat in the same condition it was swallowed
>     Disguise, by their abridgments and at their own choice
>     Dissentient and tumultuary drugs
>     Diversity of medical arguments and opinions embraces all
>     Diverting the opinions and conjectures of the people
>     Do not much blame them for making their advantage of our folly
>     Do not to pray that all things may go as we would have them
>     Do not, nevertheless, always believe myself
>     Do thine own work, and know thyself
>     Doctors: more felicity and duration in their own lives?
>     Doctrine much more intricate and fantastic than the thing itself
>     Dost thou, then, old man, collect food for others' ears?
>     Doubt whether those (old writings) we have be not the worst
>     Doubtful ills plague us worst
>     Downright and sincere obedience
>     Drugs being in its own nature an enemy to our health
>     Drunkeness a true and certain trial of every one's nature
>     Dying appears to him a natural and indifferent accident
>     Each amongst you has made somebody cuckold
>     Eat your bread with the sauce of a more pleasing imagination
>     Education
>     Education ought to be carried on with a severe sweetness
>     Effect and performance are not at all in our power
>     Either tranquil life, or happy death
>     Eloquence prejudices the subject it would advance
>     Emperor Julian, surnamed the Apostate
>     Endeavouring to be brief, I become obscure
>     Engaged in the avenues of old age, being already past forty
>     Enough to do to comfort myself, without having to console others
>     Enslave our own contentment to the power of another?
>     Enters lightly into a quarrel is apt to go as lightly out of it
>     Entertain us with fables: astrologers and physicians
>     Epicurus
>     Establish this proposition by authority and huffing
>     Evade this tormenting and unprofitable knowledge
>     Even the very promises of physic are incredible in themselves
>     Events are a very poor testimony of our worth and parts
>     Every abridgment of a good book is a foolish abridgment
>     Every day travels towards death; the last only arrives at it
>     Every government has a god at the head of it
>     Every man thinks himself sufficiently intelligent
>     Every place of retirement requires a walk
>     Everything has many faces and several aspects
>     Examine, who is better learned, than who is more learned
>     Excel above the common rate in frivolous things
>     Excuse myself from knowing anything which enslaves me to others
>     Executions rather whet than dull the edge of vices
>     Expresses more contempt and condemnation than the other
>     Extend their anger and hatred beyond the dispute in question
>     Extremity of philosophy is hurtful
>     Fabric goes forming and piling itself up from hand to hand
>     Fame: an echo, a dream, nay, the shadow of a dream
>     Fancy that others cannot believe otherwise than as he does
>     Fantastic gibberish of the prophetic canting
>     Far more easy and pleasant to follow than to lead
>     Fathers conceal their affection from their children
>     Fault not to discern how far a man's worth extends
>     Fault will be theirs for having consulted me
>     Fear and distrust invite and draw on offence
>     Fear is more importunate and insupportable than death itself
>     Fear of the fall more fevers me than the fall itself
>     Fear to lose a thing, which being lost, cannot be lamented?
>     Fear was not that I should do ill, but that I should do nothing
>     Fear: begets a terrible astonishment and confusion
>     Feared, lest disgrace should make such delinquents desperate
>     Feminine polity has a mysterious procedure
>     Few men have been admired by their own domestics
>     Few men have made a wife of a mistress, who have not repented it
>     First informed who were to be the other guests
>     First thing to be considered in love matters: a fitting time
>     Flatterer in your old age or in your sickness
>     Follies do not make me laugh, it is our wisdom which does
>     Folly and absurdity are not to be cured by bare admonition
>     Folly of gaping after future things
>     Folly satisfied with itself than any reason can reasonably be
>     Folly than to be moved and angry at the follies of the world
>     Folly to hazard that upon the uncertainty of augmenting it
>     Folly to put out their own light and shine by a borrowed lustre
>     For fear of the laws and report of men
>     For who ever thought he wanted sense?
>     Fortune heaped up five or six such-like incidents
>     Fortune rules in all things
>     Fortune sometimes seems to delight in taking us at our word
>     Fortune will still be mistress of events
>     Fox, who found fault with what he could not obtain
>     Friend, it is not now time to play with your nails
>     Friend, the hook will not stick in such soft cheese
>     Friendships that the law and natural obligation impose upon us
>     Fruits of public commotion are seldom enjoyed
>     Gain to change an ill condition for one that is uncertain
>     Gave them new and more plausible names for their excuse
>     Gentleman would play the fool to make a show of defence
>     Gently to bear the inconstancy of a lover
>     Gewgaw to hang in a cabinet or at the end of the tongue
>     Give but the rind of my attention
>     Give me time to recover my strength and health
>     Give the ladies a cruel contempt of our natural furniture
>     Give these young wenches the things they long for
>     Give us history, more as they receive it than as they believe it
>     Giving is an ambitious and authoritative quality
>     Glory and curiosity are the scourges of the soul
>     Go out of ourselves, because we know not how there to reside
>     Good does not necessarily succeed evil; another evil may succeed
>     Good to be certain and finite, and evil, infinite and uncertain
>     Got up but an inch upon the shoulders of the last, but one
>     Gradations above and below pleasure
>     Gratify the gods and nature by massacre and murder
>     Great presumption to be so fond of one's own opinions
>     Greatest apprehensions, from things unseen, concealed
>     Greatest talkers, for the most part, do nothing to purpose
>     Greedy humour of new and unknown things
>     Grief provokes itself
>     Gross impostures of religions
>     Guess at our meaning under general and doubtful terms
>     Happen to do anything commendable, I attribute it to fortune
>     Hard to resolve a man's judgment against the common opinions
>     Haste trips up its own heels, fetters, and stops itself
>     Hate all sorts of obligation and restraint
>     Hate remedies that are more troublesome than the disease itself
>     Have ever had a great respect for her I loved
>     Have more wherewith to defray my journey, than I have way to go
>     Have no other title left me to these things but by the ears
>     Have you ever found any who have been dissatisfied with dying?
>     Having too good an opinion of our own worth
>     He cannot be good, seeing he is not evil even to the wicked
>     He did not think mankind worthy of a wise man's concern
>     He felt a pleasure and delight in so noble an action
>     He judged other men by himself
>     He may employ his passion, who can make no use of his reason
>     He may well go a foot, they say, who leads his horse in his hand
>     He must fool it a little who would not be deemed wholly a fool
>     He should discern in himself, as well as in others
>     He took himself along with him
>     He who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears
>     He who is only a good man that men may know it
>     He who lays the cloth is ever at the charge of the feast
>     He who lives everywhere, lives nowhere
>     He who provides for all, provides for nothing
>     He who stops not the start will never be able to stop the course
>     He will choose to be alone
>     Headache should come before drunkenness
>     Health depends upon the vanity and falsity of their promises
>     Health is altered and corrupted by their frequent prescriptions
>     Health to be worth purchasing by all the most painful cauteries
>     Hearing a philosopher talk of military affairs
>     Heat and stir up their imagination, and then we find fault
>     Help: no other effect than that of lengthening my suffering
>     High time to die when there is more ill than good in living
>     Hoary head and rivilled face of ancient usage
>     Hobbes said that if he Had been at college as long as others—
>     Hold a stiff rein upon suspicion
>     Home anxieties and a mind enslaved by wearing complaints
>     Homer: The only words that have motion and action
>     Honour of valour consists in fighting, not in subduing
>     How infirm and decaying material this fabric of ours is
>     How many and many times he has been mistaken in his own judgment
>     How many more have died before they arrived at thy age
>     How many several ways has death to surprise us?
>     "How many things," said he, "I do not desire!"
>     How many worthy men have we known to survive their reputation
>     How much easier is it not to enter in than it is to get out
>     How much it costs him to do no worse
>     How much more insupportable and painful an immortal life
>     How uncertain duration these accidental conveniences are
>     Humble out of pride
>     Husbands hate their wives only because they themselves do wrong
>     I always find superfluity superfluous
>     I am a little tenderly distrustful of things that I wish
>     I am apt to dream that I dream
>     I am disgusted with the world I frequent
>     I am hard to be got out, but being once upon the road
>     I am no longer in condition for any great change
>     I am not to be cuffed into belief
>     I am plain and heavy, and stick to the solid and the probable
>     I am very glad to find the way beaten before me by others
>     I am very willing to quit the government of my house
>     I bequeath to Areteus the maintenance of my mother
>     I can more hardly believe a man's constancy than any virtue
>     I cannot well refuse to play with my dog
>     I content myself with enjoying the world without bustle
>     I dare not promise but that I may one day be so much a fool
>     I do not consider what it is now, but what it was then
>     I do not judge opinions by years
>     I do not much lament the dead, and should envy them rather
>     I do not say that 'tis well said, but well thought
>     I do not willingly alight when I am once on horseback
>     I enter into confidence with dying
>     I ever justly feared to raise my head too high
>     I every day hear fools say things that are not foolish
>     I find myself here fettered by the laws of ceremony
>     I find no quality so easy to counterfeit as devotion
>     I for my part always went the plain way to work
>     I grudge nothing but care and trouble
>     I had much rather die than live upon charity
>     I had rather be old a brief time, than be old before old age
>     I hail and caress truth in what quarter soever I find it
>     I hate all sorts of tyranny, both in word and deed
>     I hate poverty equally with pain
>     I have a great aversion from a novelty
>     "I have done nothing to-day"—"What? have you not lived?"
>     I have lived longer by this one day than I should have done
>     I have no mind to die, but I have no objection to be dead
>     I have not a wit supple enough to evade a sudden question
>     I have nothing of my own that satisfies my judgment
>     I honour those most to whom I show the least honour
>     I lay no great stress upon my opinions; or of others
>     I look upon death carelessly when I look upon it universally
>     I love stout expressions amongst gentle men
>     I love temperate and moderate natures
>     I need not seek a fool from afar; I can laugh at myself
>     I owe it rather to my fortune than my reason
>     I receive but little advice, I also give but little
>     I scorn to mend myself by halves
>     I see no people so soon sick as those who take physic
>     I speak truth, not so much as I would, but as much as I dare
>     I take hold of, as little glorious and exemplary as you will
>     I understand my men even by their silence and smiles
>     I was always superstitiously afraid of giving offence
>     I was too frightened to be ill
>     "I wish you good health"—"No health to thee" replied the other
>     I would as willingly be lucky as wise
>     I would be rich of myself, and not by borrowing
>     I write my book for few men and for few years
>     Idleness is to me a very painful labour
>     Idleness, the mother of corruption
>     If a passion once prepossess and seize me, it carries me away
>     If I am talking my best, whoever interrupts me, stops me
>     If I stand in need of anger and inflammation, I borrow it
>     If it be a delicious medicine, take it
>     If it be the writer's wit or borrowed from some other
>     If nature do not help a little, it is very hard
>     If they can only be kind to us out of pity
>     If they chop upon one truth, that carries a mighty report
>     If they hear no noise, they think men sleep
>     If to philosophise be, as 'tis defined, to doubt
>     Ignorance does not offend me, but the foppery of it
>     Impotencies that so unseasonably surprise the lover
>     Ill luck is good for something
>     Imagine the mighty will not abase themselves so much as to live
>     Imitating other men's natures, thou layest aside thy own
>     Immoderate either seeking or evading glory or reputation
>     Impose them upon me as infallible
>     Impostures: very strangeness lends them credit
>     Improperly we call this voluntary dissolution, despair
>     Impunity pass with us for justice

>     In everything else a man may keep some decorum
>     In ordinary friendships I am somewhat cold and shy
>     In solitude, be company for thyself—Tibullus
>     In sorrow there is some mixture of pleasure
>     In the meantime, their halves were begging at their doors
>     In this last scene of death, there is no more counterfeiting
>     In those days, the tailor took measure of it
>     In war not to drive an enemy to despair
>     Inclination to love one another at the first sight
>     Inclination to variety and novelty common to us both
>     Incline the history to their own fancy
>     Inconsiderate excuses are a kind of self-accusation
>     Inconveniences that moderation brings (in civil war)
>     Indiscreet desire of a present cure, that so blind us
>     Indocile liberty of this member
>     Inquisitive after everything
>     Insensible of the stroke when our youth dies in us
>     Insert whole sections and pages out of ancient authors
>     Intelligence is required to be able to know that a man knows not
>     Intemperance is the pest of pleasure
>     Intended to get a new husband than to lament the old
>     Interdict all gifts betwixt man and wife
>     Interdiction incites, and who are more eager, being forbidden
>     It (my books) may know many things that are gone from me
>     It happens, as with cages, the birds without despair to get in
>     It is better to die than to live miserable
>     It is no hard matter to get children
>     It is not a book to read, 'tis a book to study and learn
>     It is not for outward show that the soul is to play its part
>     It's madness to nourish infirmity
>     Jealousy: no remedy but flight or patience
>     Judge by justice, and choose men by reason
>     Judge by the eye of reason, and not from common report
>     Judgment of duty principally lies in the will
>     Judgment of great things is many times formed from lesser thing
>     Justice als takes cognisance of those who glean after the reaper
>     Killing is good to frustrate an offence to come, not to revenge
>     Knock you down with the authority of their experience
>     Knot is not so sure that a man may not half suspect it will slip
>     Knowledge and truth may be in us without judgment
>     Knowledge is not so absolutely necessary as judgment
>     Knowledge of others, wherein the honour consists
>     Known evil was ever more supportable than one that was, new
>     Ladies are no sooner ours, than we are no more theirs
>     Language: obscure and unintelligible in wills and contracts
>     Lascivious poet: Homer
>     Last death will kill but a half or a quarter of a man
>     Law: breeder of altercation and division
>     Laws (of Plato on travel), which forbids it after threescore
>     Laws cannot subsist without mixture of injustice
>     Laws do what they can, when they cannot do what they would
>     Laws keep up their credit, not for being just—but as laws
>     Lay the fault on the voices of those who speak to me
>     Laying themselves low to avoid the danger of falling
>     Learn my own debility and the treachery of my understanding
>     Learn the theory from those who best know the practice
>     Learn what it is right to wish
>     Learning improves fortunes enough, but not minds
>     Least end of a hair will serve to draw them into my discourse
>     Least touch or prick of a pencil in comparison of the whole
>     Leave society when we can no longer add anything to it
>     Leaving nothing unsaid, how home and bitter soever
>     Led by the ears by this charming harmony of words
>     Lend himself to others, and only give himself to himself
>     Lessen the just value of things that I possess
>     "Let a man take which course he will," said he; "he will repent"
>     Let him be as wise as he will, after all he is but a man
>     Let him be satisfied with correcting himself
>     Let him examine every man's talent
>     Let it alone a little
>     Let it be permitted to the timid to hope
>     Let not us seek illusions from without and unknown
>     Let us not be ashamed to speak what we are not ashamed to think
>     Let us not seek our disease out of ourselves; 'tis in us
>     Liberality at the expense of others
>     Liberty and laziness, the qualities most predominant in me
>     Liberty of poverty
>     Liberty to lean, but not to lay our whole weight upon others
>     Library: Tis there that I am in my kingdom
>     License of judgments is a great disturbance to great affairs
>     Life of Caesar has no greater example for us than our own
>     Life should be cut off in the sound and living part
>     Light griefs can speak: deep sorrows are dumb
>     Light prognostics they give of themselves in their tender years
>     Little affairs most disturb us
>     Little knacks  and frivolous subtleties
>     Little learning is needed to form a sound mind"—Seneca
>     Little less trouble in governing a private family than a kingdom
>     Live a quite contrary sort of life to what they prescribe others
>     Live at the expense of life itself
>     Live, not so long as they please, but as long as they ought
>     Living is slavery if the liberty of dying be wanting
>     Living well, which of all arts is the greatest
>     Laying the fault upon the patient, by such frivolous reasons
>     Lodge nothing in his fancy upon simple authority and upon trust
>     Long a voyage I should at last run myself into some disadvantage
>     Long sittings at table both trouble me and do me harm
>     Long toleration begets habit; habit, consent and imitation
>     Look on death not only without astonishment but without care
>     Look upon themselves as a third person only, a stranger
>     Look, you who think the gods have no care of human things
>     Lose what I have a particular care to lock safe up
>     Loses more by defending his vineyard than if he gave it up
>     Love is the appetite of generation by the mediation of beauty
>     Love shamefully and dishonestly cured by marriage
>     Love them the less for our own faults
>     Love we bear to our wives is very lawful
>     Love, full, lively, and sharp; a pleasure inflamed by difficulty
>     Loved them for our sport, like monkeys, and not as men
>     Lower himself to the meanness of defending his innocence
>     Made all medicinal conclusions largely give way to my pleasure
>     Making their advantage of our folly, for most men do the same
>     Malice must be employed to correct this arrogant ignorance
>     Malice sucks up the greatest part of its own venom
>     Malicious kind of justice
>     Man (must)  know that he is his own
>     Man after  who held out his pulse to a physician was a fool
>     Man can never be wise but by his own wisdom
>     Man may say too much even upon the best subjects
>     Man may with less trouble adapt himself to entire abstinence
>     Man must approach his wife with prudence and temperance
>     Man must have a care not to do his master so great service
>     Man must learn that he is nothing but a fool
>     Man runs a very great hazard in their hands (of physicians)
>     Mark of singular good nature to preserve old age
>     Marriage
>     Marriage rejects the company and conditions of love
>     Melancholy: Are there not some constitutions that feed upon it?
>     Memories are full enough, but the judgment totally void
>     Men approve of things for their being rare and new
>     Men are not always to rely upon the personal confessions
>     Men as often commend as undervalue me beyond reason
>     Men make them (the rules) without their (women's) help
>     Men must embark, and not deliberate, upon high enterprises
>     Men should furnish themselves with such things as would float
>     Mercenaries who would receive any (pay)
>     Merciful to the man, but not to his wickedness—Aristotle
>     Methinks I am no more than half of myself
>     Methinks I promise it, if I but say it
>     Miracle: everything our reason cannot comprehend
>     Miracles and strange events have concealed themselves from me
>     Miracles appear to be so, according to our ignorance of nature
>     Miserable kind of remedy, to owe one's health to one's disease!
>     Miserable, who has not at home where to be by himself
>     Misfortunes that only hurt us by being known
>     Mix railing, indiscretion, and fury in his disputations
>     Moderation is a virtue that gives more work than suffering
>     Modesty is a foolish virtue in an indigent person (Homer)
>     More ado to interpret interpretations
>     More books upon books than upon any other subject
>     More brave men been lost in occasions of little moment
>     More solicitous that men speak of us, than how they speak
>     More supportable to be always alone than never to be so
>     More valued a victory obtained by counsel than by force
>     Morosity and melancholic humour of a sour ill-natured pedant
>     Most cruel people, and upon frivolous occasions, apt to cry
>     Most men are rich in borrowed sufficiency
>     Most men do not so much believe as they acquiesce and permit
>     Most of my actions are guided by example, not by choice
>     Mothers are too tender
>     Motive to some vicious occasion or some prospect of profit
>     Much better to offend him once than myself every day
>     Much difference betwixt us and ourselves
>     Must for the most part entertain ourselves with ourselves
>     Must of necessity walk in the steps of another
>     My affection alters, my judgment does not
>     My books: from me hold that which I have not retained
>     My dog unseasonably importunes me to play
>     My fancy does not go by itself, as when my legs move it
>     My humour is no friend to tumult
>     My humour is unfit either to speak or write for beginners
>     My innocence is a simple one; little vigour and no art
>     My mind is easily composed at distance
>     My reason is not obliged to bow and bend; my knees are
>     My thoughts sleep if I sit still
>     My words does but injure the love I have conceived within
>     Natural death the most rare and very seldom seen
>     Nature of judgment to have it more deliberate and more slow
>     Nature of wit is to have its operation prompt and sudden
>     Nature, who left us in such a state of imperfection
>     Nearest to the opinions of those with whom they have to do
>     Negligent garb, which is yet observable amongst the young men
>     Neither be a burden to myself nor to any other
>     Neither continency nor virtue where there are no opposing desire
>     Neither men nor their lives are measured by the ell
>     Neither the courage to die nor the heart to live
>     Never any man knew so much, and spake so little
>     Never did two men make the same judgment of the same thing
>     Never observed any great stability in my soul to resist passions
>     Never oppose them either by word or sign, how false or absurd
>     Never represent things to you simply as they are
>     Never spoke of my money, but falsely, as others do
>     New World: sold it opinions and our arts at a very dear rate
>     None that less keep their promise (than physicians)
>     No alcohol the night on which a man intends to get children
>     No beast in the world so much to be feared by man as man
>     No danger with them, though they may do us no good
>     No doing more difficult than that not doing, nor more active
>     No effect of virtue, to have stronger arms and legs
>     No evil is honourable; but death is honourable
>     No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness
>     No great choice betwixt not knowing to speak anything but ill—
>     No man continues ill long but by his own fault
>     No man is free from speaking foolish things
>     No man more certain than another of to-morrow—Seneca
>     No necessity upon a man to live in necessity
>     No one can be called happy till he is dead and buried
>     No other foundation or support than public abuse
>     No passion so contagious as that of fear
>     No physic that has not something hurtful in it
>     No use to this age, I throw myself back upon that other
>     No way found  to tranquillity that is good in common
>     Noble and rich, where examples of virtue are rarely lodged
>     Nobody prognosticated that I should be wicked, but only useless
>     Noise of arms deafened the voice of laws
>     None of the sex, let her be as ugly as the devil thinks lovable
>     Nor get children but before I sleep, nor get them standing
>     Nor have other tie upon one another, but by our word
>     Nosegay of foreign flowers, having furnished nothing of my own

>     Not a victory that puts not an end to the war
>     Not being able to govern events, I govern myself
>     Not believe from one, I should not believe from a hundred
>     Not certain to live till I came home
>     Not conceiving things otherwise than by this outward bark
>     Not conclude too much upon your mistress's inviolable chastity
>     Not for any profit, but for the honour of honesty itself
>     Not having been able to pronounce one syllable, which is No!
>     Not in a condition to lend must forbid himself to borrow
>     Not melancholic, but meditative
>     Not to instruct but to be instructed
>     Not want, but rather abundance, that creates avarice
>     Nothing can be a grievance that is but once
>     Nothing falls where all falls
>     Nothing is more confident than a bad poet
>     Nothing is so firmly believed, as what we least know
>     Nothing is so supple and erratic as our understanding
>     Nothing noble can be performed without danger
>     Nothing presses so hard upon a state as innovation
>     Nothing so grossly, nor so ordinarily faulty, as the laws
>     Nothing tempts my tears but tears
>     Nothing that so poisons as flattery
>     Number of fools so much exceeds the wise
>     O Athenians, what this man says, I will do
>     O my friends, there is no friend: Aristotle
>     O wretched men, whose pleasures are a crime
>     O, the furious advantage of opportunity!
>     Obedience is never pure nor calm in him who reasons and disputes
>     Obliged to his age for having weaned him from pleasure
>     Observed the laws of marriage, than I either promised or expect
>     Obstinacy and contention are common qualities
>     Obstinacy is the sister of constancy
>     Obstinacy and heat in argument are the surest proofs of folly
>     Obstinate in growing worse
>     Occasion to La Boetie to write his "Voluntary Servitude"
>     Occasions of the least lustre are ever the most dangerous
>     Occupy our thoughts about the general, and about universal cause
>     Of the fleeting years each steals something from me
>     Office of magnanimity openly and professedly to love and hate
>     Oftentimes agitated with divers passions
>     Old age: applaud the past and condemn the present
>     Old men who retain the memory of things past
>     Omit, as incredible, such things as they do not understand
>     On all occasions to contradict and oppose
>     One door into life, but a hundred thousand ways out
>     One may be humble out of pride
>     One may more boldly dare what nobody thinks you dare
>     One may regret better times, but cannot fly from the present
>     One must first know what is his own and what is not
>     Only desire to become more wise, not more learned or eloquent
>     Only secure harbour from the storms and tempests of life
>     Only set the humours they would purge more violently in work
>     Open speaking draws out discoveries, like wine and love
>     Opinions they have of things and not by the things themselves
>     Opinions we have are taken on authority and trust
>     Opposition and contradiction entertain and nourish them
>     Option now of continuing in life or of completing the voyage
>     Order a purge for your brain, it will there be much better
>     Order it so that your virtue may conquer your misfortune
>     Ordinances it (Medicine) foists upon us
>     Ordinary friendships, you are to walk with bridle in your hand
>     Ordinary method of cure is carried on at the expense of life
>     Others adore all of their own side
>     Ought not only to have his hands, but his eyes, too, chaste
>     Ought not to expect much either from his vigilance or power
>     Ought to withdraw and retire his soul from the crowd
>     Our extremest pleasure has some sort of groaning
>     Our fancy does what it will, both with itself and us
>     Our judgments are yet sick
>     Our justice presents to us but one hand
>     Our knowledge, which is a wretched foundation
>     Our qualities have no title but in comparison
>     Our will is more obstinate by being opposed
>     Over-circumspect and wary prudence is a mortal enemy
>     Overvalue things, because they are foreign, absent
>     Owe ourselves chiefly and mostly to ourselves
>     Passion has a more absolute command over us than reason
>     Passion has already confounded his judgment
>     Passion of dandling and caressing infants scarcely born
>     Pay very strict usury who did not in due time pay the principal
>     People are willing to be gulled in what they desire
>     People conceiving they have right and title to be judges
>     Perfect friendship I speak of is indivisible
>     Perfect men as they are, they are yet simply men
>     Perfection: but I will not buy it so dear as it costs
>     Perpetual scolding of his wife (of Socrates)
>     Petulant madness contends with itself
>     Philopoemen: paying the penalty of my ugliness
>     Philosophy
>     Philosophy has discourses proper for childhood
>     Philosophy is nothing but to prepare one's self to die
>     Philosophy is that which instructs us to live
>     Philosophy looked upon as a vain and fantastic name
>     Physicians cure by misery and pain
>     Physic
>     Physician worse physicked
>     Physician: pass through all the diseases he pretends to cure
>     Physician's "help", which is very often an obstacle
>     Physicians are not content to deal only with the sick
>     Physicians fear men should at any time escape their authority
>     Physicians were the only men who might lie at pleasure
>     Physicians: earth covers their failures
>     Pinch the secret strings of our imperfections
>     Pitiful ways and expedients to the jugglers of the law
>     Pity is reputed a vice amongst the Stoics
>     Plato angry at excess of sleeping than at excess of drinking
>     Plato forbids children wine till eighteen years of age
>     Plato said of the Egyptians, that they were all physicians
>     Plato says, that the gods made man for their sport
>     Plato will have nobody marry before thirty
>     Plato: lawyers and physicians are bad institutions of a country
>     Plays of children are not performed in play
>     Pleasing all: a mark that can never be aimed at or hit
>     Pleasure of telling (a pleasure little inferior to that of doing
>     Poets
>     Possession begets a contempt of what it holds and rules
>     Practical Jokes: Tis unhandsome to fight in play
>     Preachers very often work more upon their auditory than  reasons
>     Preface to bribe the benevolence of the courteous reader
>     Prefer in bed, beauty before goodness
>     Preferring the universal and common tie to all national ties
>     Premeditation of death is the premeditation of liberty
>     Prepare ourselves against the preparations of death
>     Present Him such words as the memory suggests to the tongue
>     Present himself with a halter about his neck to the people
>     Presumptive knowledge by silence
>     Pretending to find out the cause of every accident
>     Priest shall on the wedding-day open the way to the bride
>     Proceed so long as there shall be ink and paper in the world
>     Profession of knowledge and their immeasurable self-conceit
>     Profit made only at the expense of another
>     Prolong his life also prolonged and augmented his pain
>     Prolong your misery an hour or two
>     Prudent and just man may be intemperate and inconsistent
>     Prudent man, when I imagine him in this posture
>     Psalms of King David: promiscuous, indiscreet
>     Public weal requires that men should betray, and lie
>     Puerile simplicities of our children
>     Pure cowardice that makes our belief so pliable
>     Put us into a way of extending and diversifying difficulties
>     Pyrrho's hog
>     Quiet repose and a profound sleep without dreams
>     Rage compelled to excuse itself by a pretence of good-will
>     Rage it puts them to oppose silence and coldness to their fury
>     Rash and incessant scolding runs into custom
>     Rather be a less while old than be old before I am really so
>     Rather complain of ill-fortune than be ashamed of victory
>     Rather prating of another man's province than his own
>     Reading those books, converse with the great and heroic souls
>     Reasons often anticipate the effect
>     Recommendation of strangeness, rarity, and dear purchase
>     Refusing  to justify, excuse, or explain myself
>     Regret so honourable a post, where necessity must make them bold
>     Remotest witness knows more about it than those who were nearest
>     Represented her a little too passionate for a married Venus
>     Reputation: most useless, frivolous, and false coin that passes
>     Repute for value in them, not what they bring to us
>     Reserve a backshop, wholly our own and entirely free
>     Resolved to bring nothing to it but expectation and patience
>     Rest satisfied, without desire of prolongation of life or name
>     Restoring what has been lent us, wit  usury and accession
>     Revenge more wounds our children than it heals us
>     Revenge, which afterwards produces a series of new cruelties
>     Reverse of truth has a hundred thousand forms
>     Rhetoric: an art to flatter and deceive
>     Rhetoric: to govern a disorderly and tumultuous rabble
>     Richer than we think we are; but we are taught to borrow
>     Ridiculous desire of riches when we have lost the use of them
>     Right of command appertains to the beautiful-Aristotle
>     Rome was more valiant before she grew so learned
>     Rowers who so advance backward
>     Rude and quarrelsome flatly to deny a stated fact
>     Same folly as to be sorry we were not alive a hundred years ago
>     Satisfaction of mind to have only one path to walk in
>     Satisfied and pleased with and in themselves
>     Say of some compositions that they stink of oil and of the lamp
>     Scratching is one of nature's sweetest gratifications
>     Season a denial with asperity, suspense, or favour
>     See how flexible our reason is
>     Seek the quadrature of the circle, even when on their wives
>     Seeming anger, for the better governing of my house
>     Send us to the better air of some other country
>     Sense: no one who is not contented with his share
>     Setting too great a value upon ourselves
>     Setting too little a value upon others
>     Settled my thoughts to live upon less than I have
>     Sex: To put fools and wise men, beasts and us, on a level
>     Shake the truth of our Church by the vices of her ministers
>     Shame for me to serve, being so near the reach of liberty
>     Sharps and sweets of marriage, are kept secret by the wise
>     She who only refuses, because 'tis forbidden, consents
>     Shelter my own weakness under these great reputations
>     Short of the foremost, but before the last
>     Should first have mended their breeches
>     Silence, therefore, and modesty are very advantageous qualities
>     Silent mien procured the credit of prudence and capacity
>     Sins that make the least noise are the worst
>     Sitting betwixt two stools
>     Slaves, or exiles, ofttimes live as merrily as other folk
>     Sleep suffocates and suppresses the faculties of the soul
>     Smile upon us whilst we are alive
>     So austere and very wise countenance and carriage—of physicians
>     So many trillions of men, buried before us
>     So much are men enslaved to their miserable being
>     So that I could have said no worse behind their backs
>     So weak and languishing, as not to have even wishing left to him
>     Socrates kept a confounded scolding wife
>     Socrates: According to what a man can
>     Soft, easy, and wholesome pillow is ignorance and incuriosity
>     Solon said that eating was physic against the malady hunger
>     Solon, that none can be said to be happy until he is dead
>     some people rude, by being overcivil  in their courtesy
>     Some wives covetous indeed, but very few that are good managers
>     Sometimes the body first submits to age, sometimes the mind
>     Souls that are regular and strong of themselves are rare
>     Sparing and an husband of his knowledge
>     Speak less of one's self than what one really is is folly
>     Spectators can claim no interest in the honour and pleasure

>     Stilpo lost wife, children, and goods
>     Stilpo: thank God, nothing was lost of his
>     Strangely suspect all this merchandise: medical care
>     Strong memory is commonly coupled with infirm judgment
>     Studied, when young, for ostentation, now for diversion
>     Studies, to teach me to do, and not to write
>     Study makes me sensible how much I have to learn
>     Study of books is a languishing and feeble motion
>     Study to declare what is justice, but never took care to do it
>     Stumble upon a truth amongst an infinite number of lies
>     Stupidity and facility natural to the common people
>     Style wherewith men establish religions and laws
>     Subdividing these subtilties we teach men to increase their doubt
>     Such a recipe as they will not take themselves
>     Suffer my judgment to be made captive by prepossession
>     Suffer those inconveniences which are not possibly to be avoided
>     Sufficiently covered by their virtue without any other robe
>     Suicide: a morsel that is to be swallowed without chewing
>     Superstitiously to seek out in the stars the ancient causes
>     Swell and puff up their souls, and their natural way of speaking
>     Swim in troubled waters without fishing in them
>     Take a pleasure in being uninterested in other men's affairs
>     Take all things at the worst, and to resolve to bear that worst
>     Take my last leave of every place I depart from
>     Take two sorts of grist out of the same sack
>     Taking things upon trust from vulgar opinion
>     Taught to be afraid of professing our ignorance
>     Taught to consider sleep as a resemblance of death
>     Tearing a body limb from limb by racks and torments
>     Testimony of the truth from minds prepossessed by custom?
>     That he could neither read nor swim
>     That looks a nice well-made shoe to you
>     That we may live, we cease to live
>     That which cowardice itself has chosen for its refuge
>     The action is commendable, not the man
>     The age we live in produces but very indifferent things
>     The authors, with whom I converse
>     The Babylonians carried their sick into the public square
>     The best authors too much humble and discourage me
>     The Bible: the wicked and ignorant grow worse by it
>     The cause of truth ought to be the common cause
>     The conduct of our lives is the true mirror of our doctrine
>     The consequence of common examples
>     The day of your birth is one day's advance towards the grave
>     The deadest deaths are the best
>     The event often justifies a very foolish conduct
>     The faintness that surprises in the exercises of Venus
>     The gods sell us all the goods they give us
>     The good opinion of the vulgar is injurious
>     The honour we receive from those that fear us is not honour
>     The ignorant return from the combat full of joy and triumph
>     The impulse of nature, which is a rough counsellor
>     The last informed is better persuaded than the first
>     The mean is best
>     The mind grows costive and thick in growing old
>     The most manifest sign of wisdom is a continual cheerfulness
>     The most voluntary death is the finest
>     The particular error first makes the public error
>     The pedestal is no part of the statue
>     The privilege of the mind to rescue itself from old age
>     The reward of a thing well done is to have done it
>     The satiety of living, inclines a man to desire to die
>     The sick man has not to complain who has his cure in his sleeve
>     The storm is only begot by a concurrence of angers
>     The thing in the world I am most afraid of is fear
>     The very name Liberality sounds of Liberty
>     The vice opposite to curiosity is negligence
>     The virtue of the soul does not consist in flying high
>     Their disguises and figures only serve to cosen fools
>     Their labour is not to delivery, but about conception
>     Their pictures are not here who were cast away
>     Their souls seek repose in agitation
>     There are defeats more triumphant than victories
>     There are some upon whom their rich clothes weep
>     There can be no pleasure to me without communication
>     There is more trouble in keeping money than in getting it
>     There is no allurement like modesty, if it be not rude
>     There is no long, nor short, to things that are no more
>     There is no merchant that always gains
>     There is no reason that has not its contrary
>     There is no recompense becomes virtue
>     There is none of us who would not be worse than kings
>     There is nothing I hate so much as driving a bargain
>     There is nothing like alluring the appetite and affections
>     There is nothing single and rare in respect of nature
>     These sleepy, sluggish sort of men are often the most dangerous
>     They (good women) are not by the dozen, as every one knows
>     They begin to teach us to live when we have almost done living
>     They better conquer us by flying
>     They buy a cat in a sack
>     They can neither lend nor give anything to one another
>     They do not see my heart, they see but my countenance
>     They err as much who too much forbear Venus
>     They gently name them, so they patiently endure them (diseases)
>     They have heard, they have seen, they have done so and so
>     They have not one more invention left wherewith to amuse us
>     They have not the courage to suffer themselves to be corrected
>     They have yet touched nothing of that which is mine
>     They juggle and trifle in all their discourses at our expense
>     They must be very hard to please, if they are not contented
>     They must become insensible and invisible to satisfy us
>     They neither instruct us to think well nor to do well
>     They never loved them till dead
>     They who would fight custom with grammar are triflers
>     Thing at which we all aim, even in virtue is pleasure
>     Things grow familiar to men's minds by being often seen
>     Things I say are better than those I write
>     Things often appear greater to us at distance than near at hand
>     Things seem greater by imagination than they are in effect
>     Things that engage us elsewhere and separate us from ourselves
>     Think myself no longer worth my own care
>     Think of physic as much good or ill as any one would have me
>     Thinking nothing done, if anything remained to be done
>     Thinks nothing profitable that is not painful
>     This decay of nature which renders him useless, burdensome
>     This plodding occupation of bookes is as painfull as any other
>     Those immodest and debauched tricks and postures
>     Those oppressed with sorrow sometimes surprised by a smile
>     Those which we fear the least are, peradventure, most to be fear
>     Those who can please and hug themselves in what they do
>     Those within (marriage) despair of getting out
>     Thou diest because thou art living
>     Thou wilt not feel it long if thou feelest it too much
>     Though I be engaged to one forme, I do not tie the world unto it
>     Though nobody should read me, have I wasted time
>     Threats of the day of judgment
>     Thucydides: which was the better wrestler
>     Thy own cowardice is the cause, if thou livest in pain
>     'Tis all swine's flesh, varied by sauces
>     'Tis an exact life that maintains itself in due order in private
>     'Tis better to lean towards doubt than assurance—Augustine
>     'Tis evil counsel that will admit no change
>     'Tis far beyond not fearing death to taste and relish it
>     'Tis for youth to subject itself to common opinions
>     'Tis impossible to deal fairly with a fool
>     'Tis in some sort a kind of dying to avoid the pain of living well
>     'Tis more laudable to obey the bad than the good
>     'Tis no matter; it may be of use to some others
>     'Tis not the cause, but their interest, that inflames them
>     'Tis not the number of men, but the number of good men
>     'Tis said of Epimenides, that he always prophesied backward
>     'Tis so I melt and steal away from myself
>     'Tis the sharpness of our mind that gives the edge to our pains
>     'Tis then no longer correction, but revenge
>     'Tis there she talks plain French
>     Titillation of ill-natured pleasure in seeing others suffer
>     Title of barbarism to everything that is not familiar
>     Titles being so dearly bought
>     Titles of my chapters do not always comprehend the whole matter
>     To be a slave, incessantly to be led by the nose by one's self
>     To be, not to seem
>     To condemn them as impossible, is by a temerarious presumption
>     To contemn what we do not comprehend
>     To die of old age is a death rare, extraordinary, and singular
>     To do well where there was danger was the proper office
>     To forbear doing is often as generous as to do
>     To forbid us anything is to make us have a mind to't
>     To fret and vex at folly, as I do, is folly itself
>     To give a currency to his little pittance of learning
>     To go a mile out of their way to hook in a fine word
>     To keep me from dying is not in your power
>     To kill men, a clear and strong light is required
>     To know by rote, is no knowledge
>     To make little things appear great was his profession
>     To make their private advantage at the public expense
>     To smell, though well, is to stink
>     To study philosophy is nothing but to prepare one's self to die
>     To what friend dare you intrust your griefs
>     To whom no one is ill who can be good?
>     Tongue will grow too stiff to bend
>     Too contemptible to be punished
>     Torture: rather a trial of patience than of truth
>     Totally brutified by an immoderate thirst after knowledge
>     Transferring of money from the right owners to strangers
>     Travel with not only a necessary, but a handsome equipage
>     True liberty is to be able to do what a man will with himself
>     Truly he, with a great effort will shortly say a mighty trifle
>     Truth itself has not the privilege to be spoken at all times
>     Truth, that for being older it is none the wiser
>     Turks have alms and hospitals for beasts
>     Turn up my eyes to heaven to return thanks, than to crave
>     Tutor to the ignorance and folly of the first we meet
>     Twas a happy marriage betwixt a blind wife and a deaf husband
>     Twenty people prating about him when he is at stool
>     Two opinions alike, no more than two hairs
>     Two principal guiding reins are reward and punishment
>     Tyrannic sourness not to endure a form contrary to one's own
>     Tyrannical authority physicians usurp over poor creatures
>     Unbecoming rudeness to carp at everything
>     Under fortune's favour, to prepare myself for her disgrace
>     Universal judgments that I see so common, signify nothing
>     Unjust judges of their actions, as they are of ours
>     Unjust to exact from me what I do not owe
>     Upon the precipice, 'tis no matter who gave you the push
>     Use veils from us the true aspect of things
>     Utility of living consists not in the length of days
>     Valour has its bounds as well as other virtues
>     Valour whetted and enraged by mischance
>     Valour will cause a trembling in the limbs as well as fear
>     Valuing the interest of discipline
>     Vast distinction betwixt devotion and conscience
>     Venture it upon his neighbour, if he will let him
>     venture the making ourselves better without any danger
>     Very idea we invent for their chastity is ridiculous
>     Vice of confining their belief to their own capacity
>     Vices will cling together, if a man have not a care
>     Victorious envied the conquered
>     Virtue and ambition, unfortunately, seldom lodge together
>     Virtue is a pleasant and gay quality
>     Virtue is much strengthened by combats
>     Virtue refuses facility for a companion
>     Viscid melting kisses of youthful ardour in my wanton age
>     Voice and determination of the rabble, the mother of ignorance
>     Vulgar reports and opinions that drive us on
>     We are masters of nothing but the will
>     We are not to judge of counsels by events
>     We ask most when we bring least
>     We believe we do not believe
>     We can never be despised according to our full desert
>     We cannot be bound beyond what we are able to perform
>     We confess our ignorance in many things
>     We consider our death as a very great thing
>     We do not correct the man we hang; we correct others by him
>     We do not easily accept the medicine we understand
>     We do not go, we are driven
>     We do not so much forsake vices as we change them
>     We have lived enough for others
>     We have more curiosity than capacity
>     We have naturally a fear of pain, but not of death
>     We have not the thousandth part of ancient writings
>     We have taught the ladies to blush
>     We much more aptly imagine an artisan upon his close-stool
>     We must learn to suffer what we cannot evade
>     We neither see far forward nor far backward
>     We only labour to stuff the memory
>     We ought to grant free passage to diseases
>     We say a good marriage because no one says to the contrary
>     We set too much value upon ourselves
>     We still carry our fetters along with us
>     We take other men's knowledge and opinions upon trust
>     Weakness and instability of a private and particular fancy
>     Weigh, as wise: men should, the burden of obligation
>     Well, and what if it had been death itself?
>     Were more ambitious of a great reputation than of a good one
>     What a man says should be what he thinks
>     What are become of all our brave philosophical precepts?
>     What can they not do, what do they fear to do (for beauty)
>     What can they suffer who do not fear to die?
>     What did I say?  that I have?  no, Chremes, I had
>     What he did by nature and accident, he cannot do by design
>     What is more accidental than reputation?
>     What may be done to-morrow, may be done to-day
>     What more? they lie with their lovers learnedly
>     What need have they of anything but to live beloved and honoured
>     What sort of wine he liked the best: "That of another"
>     What step ends the near and what step begins the remote
>     What they ought to do when they come to be men
>     What we have not seen, we are forced to receive from other hands
>     What, shall so much knowledge be lost
>     Whatever was not ordinary diet, was instead of a drug
>     When I travel I have nothing to care for but myself
>     When jealousy seizes these poor souls
>     When their eyes give the lie to their tongue
>     When time begins to wear things out of memory
>     When we have got it, we want something else
>     "When will this man be wise," said he, "if he is yet learning?"
>     When you see me moved first, let me alone, right or wrong
>     Where the lion's skin is too short
>     Where their profit is, let them there have their pleasure too
>     Wherever the mind is perplexed, it is in an entire disorder
>     Whilst thou wast silent, thou seemedst to be some great thing
>     Whimpering is offensive to the living and vain to the dead
>     Who by their fondness of some fine sounding word
>     Who can  flee from himself
>     Who discern no riches but in pomp and show
>     Who does not boast of some rare recipe
>     Who escapes being talked of at the same rate
>     Who ever saw one physician approve of another's prescription
>     Who has once been a very fool, will never after be very wise
>     Who would weigh him without the honour and grandeur of his end
>     Whoever expects punishment already suffers it
>     Whoever will be cured of ignorance must confess it
>     Whoever will call to mind the excess of his past anger
>     Whosoever despises his own life, is always master
>     Why do we not imitate the Roman architecture?
>     Wide of the mark in judging of their own works
>     Willingly give them leave to laugh after we are dead
>     Willingly slip the collar of command upon any pretence whatever
>     Wisdom has its excesses, and has no less need of moderation
>     Wisdom is folly that does not accommodate itself to the common
>     Wise man lives as long as he ought, not so long as he can
>     Wise man never loses anything if he have himself
>     Wise man to keep a curbing hand upon the impetus of friendship
>     Wise may learn more of fools, than fools can of the wise
>     Wise whose invested money is visible in beautiful villas
>     Wiser who only know what is needful for them to know
>     With being too well I am about to die
>     Woman who goes to bed to a man, must put off her modesty
>     Women who paint, pounce, and plaster up their ruins
>     Wont to give others their life, and not to receive it
>     World where loyalty of one's own children is unknown
>     Worse endure an ill-contrived robe than an ill-contrived mind
>     Would have every one in his party blind or a blockhead
>     Would in this affair have a man a little play the servant
>     Wrangling arrogance, wholly believing and trusting in itself
>     Wretched and dangerous thing to depend upon others
>     Write what he knows, and as much as he knows, but no more
>     Wrong the just side when they go about to assist it with fraud
>     Yet at least for ambition's sake, let us reject ambition
>     Yet do we find any end of the need of interpretating?
>     You and companion are theatre enough to one another
>     You have lost a good captain, to make of him a bad general
>     You may indeed make me die an ill death
>     You must first see us die
>     You must let yourself down to those with whom you converse
>     Young and old die upon the same terms
>     Young are to make their preparations, the old to enjoy them

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