The Complete Works (Everyman's Library)
Humanist, skeptic, acute observer of himself and others, Michel de Montaigne (1533—92) was the first to use the term “essay” to refer to the form he pioneered, and he has remained one of its most famous practitioners. He reflected on the great themes of existence in his wise and engaging writings, his subjects ranging from proper conversation and good reading, to the raising of children and the endurance of pain, from solitude, destiny, time, and custom, to truth, consciousness, and death....
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(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)Humanist, skeptic, acute observer of himself and others, Michel de Montaigne (1533—92) was the first to use the term “essay” to refer to the form he pioneered, and he has remained one of its most famous practitioners. He reflected on the great themes of existence in his wise and engaging writings, his subjects ranging from proper conversation and good reading, to the raising of children and the endurance of pain, from solitude, destiny, time, and custom, to truth, consciousness, and death. Having stood the test of time, his essays continue to influence writers nearly five hundred years later.Also included in this complete edition of his works are Montaigne’s letters and his travel journal, fascinating records of the experiences and contemplations that would shape and infuse his essays. Montaigne speaks to us always in a personal voice in which his virtues of tolerance, moderation, and understanding are dazzlingly manifest.Donald M. Frame’s masterful translation is widely acknowledged to be the classic English version.
IntroductionTranslator's NoteSelect BibliographyChronologyEssaysBy diverse means we arrive at the same end (1578-80)3Of sadness (1572-74)6Our feelings reach out beyond us (1572-74)9How the soul discharges its passions on false objects when the true are wanting (1572-74)16Whether the governor of a besieged place should go out to parley (1572-74)18Parley time is dangerous (1572-74)20That intention is judge of our actions (1572-74)23Of idleness (1572-74)24Of liars (1572-74)25Of prompt or slow speech (1572-74)30Of prognostications (1572-74)32Of constancy (1572-74)35Ceremony of interviews between kings (1572-74)38That the taste of good and evil depends in large part on the opinion we have of them (1572-74)39One is punished for defending a place obstinately without reason (1572-74)56Of the punishment of cowardice (1572-74)57A trait of certain ambassadors (1572-74)59Of fear (1572-74)62That our happiness must not be judged until after our death (1572-74)64That to philosophize is to learn to die (1572-74)67Of the power of the imagination (1572-74)82One man's profit is another man's harm (1572-80)92Of custom, and not easily changing an accepted law (1572-74)93Various outcomes of the same plan (1572-80)109Of pedantry (1572-78)118Of the education of children (1579-80)129It is folly to measure the true and false by our own capacity (1572-74)160Of friendship (1572-76, 1578-80)164Twenty-nine sonnets of Etienne de La Boetie (1578-80)176Of moderation (1572-80)177Of cannibals (1578-80)182We should meddle soberly with judging divine ordinances (1572-74)194To flee from sensual pleasures at the price of life (1575-74)196Fortune is often met in the path of reason (1572-74)197Of a lack in our administrations (1572-74)200Of the custom of wearing clothes (1572-74)201Of Cato the Younger (1572-74)205How we cry and laugh for the same thing (1572-74)208Of solitude (1572-74)211A consideration upon Cicero (1572-74)222Of not communicating one's glory (1572-74)227Of the inequality that is between us (1572-74)229Of sumptuary laws (1572-74)238Of sleep (1572-74)240Of the battle of Dreux (1572-74)242Of names (1572-74)243Of the uncertainty of our judgment (1572-74)248Of war horses (1572-74)254Of ancient customs (1572-80)261Of Democritus and Heraclitus (1572-80)266Of the vanity of words (1572-80)269Of the parsimony of the ancients (1572-80)271Of a saying of Caesar's (1572-80)272Of vain subtleties (1572-80)273Of smells (1572-80)276Of prayers (1572-80)278Of age (1572-80)287Of the inconsistency of our actions (1572-74)290Of drunkenness (1573-74)296A custom of the island of Cea (1573-74)303Let business wait till tomorrow (1573-74)318Of conscience (1573-74)320Of practice (1573-74)324Of honorary awards (1578-80)334Of the affection of fathers for their children (1578-80)337Of the arms of the Parthians (1578-80)356Of books (1578-80)359Of cruelty (1578-80)372Apology for Raymond Sebond (1575-76, 1578-80)386Of judging of the death of others (1572-80)556How our mind hinders itself (1575-76562That our desire is increased by difficulty (1575-76)563Of glory (1578-80)568Of presumption (1578-80)581Of giving the lie (1578-80)611Of freedom of conscience (1578-80)615We taste nothing pure (1578-80)619Against do-nothingness (1578-80)622Of riding post (1578-80)626Of evil means employed to a good end (1578-80)627Of the greatness of Rome (1578-80)630Not to counterfeit being sick (1578-80)632Of thumbs (1578-80)634Cowardice, mother of cruelty (1578-80)635All things have their season (1578-80)644Of virtue (1578-80)646Of a monstrous child (1578-80)653Of anger (1578-80)655Defense of Seneca and Plutarch (1578-80)661The story of Spurina (1578-80)667Observations on Julius Caesar's methods of making war (1578-80)674Of three good women (1578-80)683Of the most oustanding men (1578-80)690Of the resemblance of children to fathers (1579-80)696Of the useful and the honorable (1585-88)726Of repentance (1585-88)740Of three kinds of association (1585-88)753Of diversion (1585-88)764On some verses of Virgil (1585-88)774Of coaches (1585-88)831Of the disadvantage of greatness (1585-88)849Of the art of discussion (1585-88)854Of vanity (1585-88)876Of husbanding your will (1585-88)932Of cripples (1585-88)954Of physiognomy (1585-88)964Of experience (1587-88)992Travel JournalAcross France toward Switzerland (September 5-28, 1580)1056Switzerland (September 29-October 7, 1580)1068Germany, Austria, and the Alps (October 8-27, 1580)1082Italy: The road to Rome (October 28-November 29, 1580)1112Italy: Rome (November 30, 1580-April 19, 1581)1141Italy: From Rome to Loreto and La Villa (April 19-May 7, 1581)1179Italy: First stay at La Villa (May 7-June 21, 1581)1200Italy: Florence-Pisa-Lucca (June 21-August 13, 1581)1224Italy: Second stay at La Villa (August 14-September 12, 1581)1240Italy: Return to Rome (September 12-October 15, 1581)1247Italy and France: The return home (October 15-November 30, 1581)1257LettersTo Antoine Duprat (August 24, 1562?)1275To his father: On the death of La Boetie (1563?; published 1570)1276To his father: Dedication of Montaigne's translation of Sebond (June 18, 1568)1289To Henri de Mesmes: Dedicatory epistle to La Boetie's translation of Plutarch's 'Rules of Marriage' (April 30, 1570)1290To Michel de L'Hopital: Dedicatory epistle to La Boetie's Latin 'Poems' (April 30, 1570)1292Notice to the reader of La Boetie's translations (August 10, 1570)1294To Louis de Lansac: Dedicatory epistle to La Boetie's translation of Xenophon's 'Oeconomicus (1570?)1295To Paul de Foix: Dedicatory epistle to La Boetie's 'French Verses' (September 1, 1570)1297To his wife: Dedicatory epistle to La Boetie's translation of Plutarch's 'Letter of Consolation to His Wife' (September 10, 1570)1300To the Jurats of Bordeaux (May 21, 1582)1301To Marshal de Matignon (October 30, 1582)1302To Antoine Duprat (November 22, 1582)1302To King Henry III: Letter of remonstrance from the Mayor and Jurats of Bordeaux (August 31, 1583)1303To King Henry of Navarre: Letter of remonstrance from the Mayor and Jurats of Bordeaux (December 10, 1583)1308To Marshal de Matignon (December 14, 1583)1309To Marshal de Matignon (January 21, 1584)1311To Claude Dupuy (April 23, 1584?)1311To Marshal de Matignon (July 12, 1584?)1312To Marshal de Matignon (August 19, 1584)1313To the Jurats of Bordeaux (December 10, 1584)1314To Marshal de Matignon (January 18, 1585)1314To Marshal de Matignon (January 26, 1585)1316To Marshal de Matignon (February 2, 1585)1317To the Jurats of Bordeaux (February 8, 1585)1318To Marshal de Matignon (February 9, 1585)1318To Marshal de Matignon (February 12, 1585?)1320To Marshal de Matignon (February 13, 1585)1321To Marshal de Matignon (February, 1585?)1322To Marshal de Matignon (May 22, 1585?)1323To Marshal de Matignon (May 27, 1585)1327To the Jurats of Bordeaux (July 30, 1585)1328To the Jurats of Bordeaux (July 31, 1585)1329To Marshal de Matignon (June 12, 1587?)1329To Marshal de Matignon (February 16, 1588?)1330To Madame Paulmier (1588?)1331To Antoine Loisel: Inscription on a copy of the 1588 Essays (1588?)1332To King Henry IV (January 18, 1590?)1332To ... (March or May 10, 1590)1335To King Henry IV (September 2, 1590?)1335
