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Essays

By: Michel Eyquem de Montaigne

... entreate you to peruse: this Printers want a diligent Corrector, my many employments, and the distance between me, and my friends I should conferre... ...e authoritie, that affoord so little to our wisedome. And I have had some, equally weake in reason, and violent in perswasion and disswasion (which w... ...er accidentall crosses, to which man's life is subject, it is not with an equall care: as well because accidents are not of such a necessitie for mo... ...tune? The most and the least is ours, if we compare it with eternitie, or equall it to the lasting of mountains, rivers, stars, and trees, or any oth... ...eth no great apparance with it. My advice would be, that our vacation and employment should be extended as I far as might be for the publike commodi... ...inst our Lawes, not because they leave us so long and late in working and employment, but that they set us a worke no sooner, and it is so late befo... ...nd when he came to be old, he said it was no more time. A man must refuse opportunity to every importunate action. The ancient Gaules deemed it a sha... ...y as little as may be. I carry nothing to the one which I may not (having opportunity) say unto the other, the accent only changed a little: and rep... ...ounsell, and of those hee most trusted. By which advantages, and with the opportunity of his masters absence, hee betrayed Vicilicia, a great and ri...

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