Essays

Michel de Montaigne


1 - Of Custom, and that we should not easily change a law received.

2 - Of the education of children.

3 - That fortune is oftentimes observed to act by the rules of reason.

4 - Of Cannibals.

5 - Of war-horses, or destriers.

6 - Of Democritus and Heraclitus.

7 - Of age.

8 - Of drunkenness.

9 - Of glory.

10 - Of presumption.

11 - That we taste nothing pure.

12 - Of thumbs.

13 - Of the resemblance of children to their fathers.

14 - Of repentance.

15 - Upon some verses of Vergil.

16 - Of coaches.

17 - That to study philosophy is to learn to die.

18 - Of vanity.

19 - Of physiognomy.

20 - Of the force of imagination.

21 - Of experience.