Table of Contents
Book 1
- 1 By Various Ways We Arrive at the Same End
- 2 On Sorrow
- 3 Our Attachments Outlive Us
- 4 How the Soul Releases Its Emotions on False Objects When Real Ones Are Missing
- 5 Whether the Commander of a Place Under Siege Ought to Go Out to Parley
- 6 The Dangerous Hour of Parley
- 7 Intent Is the Arbiter of Our Actions
- 8 On Idleness
- 9 On Liars
- 10 On Quick or Slow Speech
- 11 On Prognostications
- 12 On Constancy
- 13 Protocol at the Meetings of Kings
- 14 15 There Is a Price to Pay for Needlessly Defending a Position
- 15 16 On the Punishment of Cowardice
- 16 17 A Record of Some Ambassadors
- 17 18 On Fear
- 18 19 Let Others Judge of Our Happiness after Our Death
- 19 20 To Philosophize Is to Learn to Die
- 20 21 On the Power of Imagination
- 21 22 One Person’s Gain Is Another Person’s Loss
- 22 23 On Custom and Not Easily Changing an Accepted Law
- 23 24 Various Events Sharing the Same Premise
- 24 25 On Pedantry
- 25 26 On the Education of Children
- 26 27 It Is Folly to Measure the True and the False by Our Own Capacity
- 27 28 On Friendship
- 28 29 Twenty-Nine Sonnets of Étienne de La Boétie
- 29 30 On Moderation
- 30 31 On Cannibals
- 31 32 Hazarding an Opinion on God’s Plans Demands Caution
- 32 33 On Fleeing from Pleasures at the Cost of One’s Life
- 33 34 Where Reason Goes Fortune Often Goes Too
- 34 35 On a Deficiency in Our Systems
- 35 36 On the Custom of Wearing Clothes
- 36 37 On Cato the Younger
- 37 38 How We Cry and Laugh at the Same Thing
- 38 39 On Solitude
- 39 40 A Consideration on Cicero
- 40 14 The Taste of Good and Bad Things Depends Mostly on the Opinion We Have of Them
- 41 On Not Sharing One’s Fame
- 42 On the Inequality among Us
- 43 On Sumptuary Laws
- 44 On Sleep
- 45 On the Battle of Dreux
- 46 On Names
- 47 On the Uncertainty of Our Judgment
- 48 On War Horses
- 49 On Ancient Customs
- 50 On Democritus and Heraclitus
- 51 On the Vanity of Words
- 52 On the Parsimony of the Ancients
- 53 On a Saying of Caesar
- 54 On Vain Subtleties
- 55 On Smells
- 56 On Prayers
- 57 On Age
Book 2
- 1 On the Inconsistency of Our Actions
- 2 On Drunkenness
- 3 A Custom of the Island of Cea
- 4 Business Can Wait
- 5 On Conscience
- 6 On Practice
- 7 On Honorary Awards
- 8 On the Affection of Fathers for Their Children
- 9 On the Armor of the Parthians
- 10 On Books
- 11 On Cruelty
- 12 Apology for Raymond Sebond
- 13 On Judging of the Death of Another
- 14 How Our Mind Hinders Itself
- 15 Difficulty Increases Our Desire
- 16 On Glory
- 17 On Presumption
- 18 On Calling Out Lies
- 19 On Freedom of Conscience
- 20 We Taste Nothing Pure
- 21 Against Laziness
- 22 On Couriers
- 23 On Bad Means to a Good End
- 24 On Roman Greatness
- 25 On Not Faking an Illness
- 26 On Thumbs
- 27 Cowardice, Mother of Cruelty
- 28 All Things Have Their Season
- 29 On Virtue
- 30 On a Monster Child
- 31 On Anger
- 32 In Defense of Seneca and Plutarch
- 33 The Story of Spurina
- 34 Observations on Julius Caesar’s Methods of Waging War
- 35 On Three Good Women
- 36 On the Most Excellent Men
- 37 On the Resemblance of Children to Their Fathers
Book 3
This is the table of contents of HyperEssays’s ongoing translation of Michel de Montaigne’s Essays.
The table of contents of other editions is also available, including that of Charles Cotton’s 1685 translation, John Florio’s 1603 translation, and the 1598 Middle French edition.
Small sans serif chapter numbers in Book 1 show the numbering sequence used in early editions of the Essays (1580–1588). In the first posthumous edition (1595), chapter 14 became chapter 40 and chapter numbers between 14 and 40 changed. HyperEssays follows this latter sequence but some editions and translations use the former.