The Essays of Montaigne — volume 18
The Essays of Montaigne — volume 18
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Do but recollect yourself, and you will find in yourself naturalarguments against death, true, and the fittest to serve you in time ofnecessity: 'tis they that make a peasant, and whole nations, die with asmuch firmness as a philosopher. Should I have died less cheerfullybefore I had read Cicero's Tusculan Quastiones? I believe not; and whenI find myself at the best, I perceive that my tongue is enriched indeed, but my courage little or nothing elevated by them; that is just as natureframed it ...at first, and defends itself against the conflict only after anatural and ordinary way. Books have not so much served me forinstruction as exercise. What if knowledge, trying to arm us with newdefences against natural inconveniences, has more imprinted in ourfancies their weight and greatness, than her reasons and subtleties tosecure us from them? They are subtleties, indeed, with which she oftenalarms us to little purpose. Do but observe how many slight andfrivolous, and, if nearly examined, incorporeal arguments, the closestand wisest authors scatter about one good one: they are but verbal quirksand fallacies to amuse and gull us: but forasmuch as it may be with someprofit, I will sift them no further; many of that sort are here and theredispersed up and down this book, either borrowed or by imitation.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
Do but recollect yourself, and you will find in yourself naturalarguments against death, true, and the fittest to serve you in time ofnecessity: 'tis they that make a peasant, and whole nations, die with asmuch firmness as a philosopher. Should I have died less cheerfullybefore I had read Cicero's Tusculan Quastiones? I believe not; and whenI find myself at the best, I perceive that my tongue is enriched indeed, but my courage little or nothing elevated by them; that is just as natureframed it ...at first, and defends itself against the conflict only after anatural and ordinary way. Books have not so much served me forinstruction as exercise. What if knowledge, trying to arm us with newdefences against natural inconveniences, has more imprinted in ourfancies their weight and greatness, than her reasons and subtleties tosecure us from them? They are subtleties, indeed, with which she oftenalarms us to little purpose. Do but observe how many slight andfrivolous, and, if nearly examined, incorporeal arguments, the closestand wisest authors scatter about one good one: they are but verbal quirksand fallacies to amuse and gull us: but forasmuch as it may be with someprofit, I will sift them no further; many of that sort are here and theredispersed up and down this book, either borrowed or by imitation.
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