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The Complete Works of Michel de Montaigne
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Essays of Montaigne, Vol. 1
THE WORKS OF MICHEL de MONTAIGNE
CONTENTS

CONTENTS

                        
Essay by Emerson  11 
Preface 53 
By Different Methods Men Arrive at the Same End  69 
Of Sorrow 78 
Our Affections Carry Themselves Beyond Us  84 
How the Soul Expends its Passions upon False Objects, when the True are Missed  100 
Whether the Governor of a Place Besieged ought to go out to Parley 105 
The Hour of Parley Dangerous 111 
That the Intention is Judge of our Actions 116 
Of Idleness 119 
Of Liars 121 
Of Quick or Slow Speech 133 
Of Prognostications 137 
Of Constancy 146 
Ceremony of the Interview of Kings 151 
Men are Punished for being Obstinate in the Defence of a Fort without Reason 155 
Of the Punishment of Cowardice 157 
A Trait of some Ambassadors 160 
Of Fear 168 
That we are not to Judge of our Hour till after Death 174 
That to Philosophise is to learn to Die 179 
Of the Force of Imagination 214 
The Profit of one Man is the Loss of Another  239 
Of Custom, and of not Changing a Received Law 240