The Essays of Michel de Montaigne, by Michel de Montaigne

Preface.

The Life of Montaigne

The Letters of Montaigne.

The Author to the Reader.

Book the First

1. That Men by Various Ways Arrive at the Same End.
2. Of Sorrow
3. That Our Affections Carry Themselves Beyond Us
4. That the Soul Expends its Passions Upon False Objects, where the True are Wanting
5. Whether the Governor of a Place Besieged Ought Himself to Go Out to Parley
6. That the Hour of Parley Dangerous
7. That the Intention is Judge of Our Actions
8. Of Idleness
9. Of Liars
10. Of Quick or Slow Speech
11. Of Prognostications
12. Of Constancy
13. The Ceremony of the Interview of Princes
14. That Men are Justly Punished for Being Obstinate in the Defence of a Fort that is Not in Reason to Be Defended
15. Of the Punishment of Cowardice
16. A Proceeding of Some Ambassadors
17. Of Fear
18. That Men are Not to Judge of Our Happiness Till After Death.
19. That to Study Philosopy is to Learn to Die
20. Of the Force of Imagination
21. That the Profit of One Man is the Damage of Another
22. Of Custom, and that We Should Not Easily Change a Law Received
23. Various Events from the Same Counsel
24. Of Pedantry
25. Of the Education of Children
26. That it is Folly to Measure Truth and Error by Our Own Capacity
27. Of Friendship
28. Nine and Twenty Sonnets of Estienne De La Boitie
29. Of Moderation
30. Of Cannibals
31. That a Man is Soberly to Judge of the Divine Ordinances
32. That We are to Avoid Pleasures, Even at the Expense of Life
33. That Fortune is Oftentimes Observed to Act by the Rule of Reason
34. Of One Defect in Our Government
35. Of the Custom of Wearing Clothes
36. Of Cato the Younger
37. That We Laugh and Cry for the Same Thing
38. Of Solitude
39. A Consideration Upon Cicero
40. That the Relish for Good and Evil Depends in Great Measure Upon the Opinion We have of Them
41. Not to Communicate a Man’s Honour
42. Of the Inequality Amoungst Us.
43. Of Sumptuary Laws
44. Of Sleep
45. Of the Battle of Dreux
46. Of Names
47. Of the Uncertainty of Our Judgment
48. Of War Horses, or Destriers
49. Of Ancient Customs
50. Of Democritus and Heraclitus
51. Of the Vanity of Words
52. Of the Parsimony of the Ancients
53. Of a Saying of Caesar
54. Of Vain Subtleties
55. Of Smells
56. Of Prayers
57. Of Age

Book the Second

1. Of the Inconstancy of Our Actions
2. Of Drunkenness
3. A Custom of the Isle of Cea
4. To-Morrow’s a New Day
5. Of Conscience
6. Use Makes Perfect
7. Of Recompenses of Honour
8. Of the Affection of Fathers to Their Children
9. Of the Arms of the Parthians
10. Of Books
11. Of Cruelty
12. Of Judging of the Death of Another
13. That Our Mind Hinders Itself
14. That Our Desires are Augmented by Difficulty
15. Of Glory
16. Of Presumption
17. Of Giving the Lie
18. Of Liberty of Conscience
19. That We Taste Nothing Pure
20. Against Idleness
21. Of Posting
22. Of ILL Means Employed to a Good End
23. Of the Roman Grandeur
24. Not to Counterfeit Being Sick
25. Of Thumbs
26. Cowardice the Mother of Cruelty
27. All Things have Their Season
28. Of Virtue
29. Of a Monstrous Child
30. Of Anger
31. Defence of Seneca and Plutarch
32. The Story of Spurina
33. Observation on the Means to Carry on a War According to Julius Caesar
34. Of Three Good Women
35. Of the Most Excellent Men
36. Of the Resemblance of Children to Their Fathers

Book the Third

1. Of Profit and Honesty
2. Of Repentance
3. Of Three Commerces
4. Of Diversion
5. Upon Some Verses of Virgil
6. Of Coaches
7. Of the Inconvenience of Greatness
8. Of the Art of Conference
9. Of Vanity
10. Of Managing the Will
11. Of Cripples
12. Of Physiognomy
13. Of Experience