Essays of Michel de Montaigne Notes

Essays of Michel de Montaigne Notes :

(Ch.1 : Of custom, and that we should not easily change a law received)

• Custom: violent yet is accompanied by  time. Soon we begin to become accustomed and no longer lift our eyes to see what we do not know of.
• Usus efficacissimus rerum omnium magister : The most effective use of the master.
• When you are accustomed with something you know it well (the art of knowing)
• we all differ in our customs
• Consuetudinis magna via est = pernoatant venatores in nive : in montibus uri se patiuutur = pugiles coestibus contusi, ne ingemiscut quidem : Habit is great the way it is = pernoatant hunters in the snow, the mountains themselves to be burnt patiuutur = coestibus champions beaten down, not even groan
•  we do not know how accustomed we are
• Michel lives next to the Ave Maria ( translation : a collection of symphonies)
• Believes that we become accustomed by those who teach us
• Example : A dad is proud of his son that is able to decieve at a young age. It shows intelligence, yet little did the dad know that that was were his sons cruelty seeded from.
• Age is no excuse for behaviors
• Every teaching matters when your young 
• becoming accustomed (example:)  A man with no arms lives his life through his feet which after becoming accustomed too act as if he hands would
• custom can not impose on one area , religion.
• Non pudent physicum, id est speculatorem venatormque naturae, ab animus consuetudine imbutis quaerere testimonium veritatis? : Are you not ashamed of physical, that is, the explorer venatormque of nature, from the custom of those imbued with the mind to look for evidence of truth?
•  God is great and many acknowledge it, although places differ.
• We see people as rude or weird, but have we ever stopped to think that that is their custom?
• Some customs women are covered, others woman may do as they please
• Some places (before a wedding) allow the bride to sleep with as many men as possible, because the more men that will have her means the more valuable she is.
• Believes women are queens and can do anything the want
• "more by custom then by nature"
• Laws of Conscience - made by  custom : Ex. (American) its wrong to cheat
•                                                                   Ex. (foreigner) its our tradition
• God knows
• Is it a truly good sentence? Or does it reach us on a personal level?
• Percieve admonitions of the truth in general and commit it to memory, but does not apply that truth to their own manners.
• Monarchy:  Those who do not believe in  a higher being (subjection)
• We are not very different?
• Ex. indians eat fathers in the highest of respect as their last giving to their children
• Ex. we consume fathers ideas and last words out of respect  and last giving to their children.
•  Neil adeo magnum, nec tam mirabile quidquam principio, quod non minuant mirarier omnes paullatim : Neil so great, the beginning of anything, nor so surprising, that he did not abate their wonder at all the little by little
• Custom is made by law and authority
• Chastity is the highest of virtue, yet with custom is hard to keep.
• Why is it we follow rules and laws  we do not understand?
• Time frame ( Latin and imperial laws were being formed)
•  "What can be more savage.... where judgments are paid for with ready money, and where justice may legitimately be denied to him that has not wherewithal to pay."
• Those who seek revenge as their justice shall incur a capital punishment
•  Religion is a law in its own. 
• Both law and religion stem from the same root, yet the differ in how it is they appear. One has the charge of peace, the other war. One has the word , the other the action, etc....
• The law of laws: that everyone observes those of the place wherein he lives
•  nomoiz epesthai toisin egchorioiz kalon :  nomoiz epesthai toisin egchorioiz kalon 
•  The government is so bounded together that you could not change one law without the whole system being aware
• Those who would try to abolish an old law or start a new one would be hanged if not everyone agreed with this law.
• Who do we accuse for these disorders?
• Heu! patior telis vulnera facta meis : Alas! I made ​​my wounds with weapons
• Invention arises : With the inventor comes imitators
• Our laws remedy these evils
• Imitators disguise their true title
• "Honesta oratio est ":"It is a very honorable"
• Adeo nihil motum ex antiquo probablie est :so nothing has been changed from the earlier it is probable
• Opinion is a beautiful thing, yet dangerous when brought into public
• Ad deos id magis, quam ad se, pertinere: ipsos visuros, ne sacra sua polluantur: To the gods, that all the more, rather than to themselves, to belong to them in since they would see, their rites should not defiled
• God can take care of his own
• Christianity holds justice and wisdom, absolute obedience to such a divine being
• Quis est enim, quem non moveat clarissimis monumentis testata consignataque antiquisas: For who is there, whom they have not the brightest move consignataque antiquisas the testimony and declarations
• We should not imitate that of a divine hand, yet admire in example
• "Quum de religione agitur, Ti. Coruncanium, P. Scipionem, P. Scaevolam pontifices maximos, non Zenonem, aut Cleanthem, aut Chrysippum, sequor. " "When the discussion is about religion of the year. Coruncanius, Publius Scipio, Publius Scaevola, the Pontifex Maximus, not Zeno, or Cleanthes, or Chrysippus, I follow."
• There are other things that act as a quick fix but only God is the true medicine
• It is dangerous to live an unholy life (for the purpose of your own happiness)
• Aditum nocendi perfido praestat fides : Access to harm a violator of loyalty
• It is better to take the blow then let others fall for your mistake
• A man of honor is a man chosen time after time
• He who was born into command knows what to do (Jesus)

(Ch.2 : Of the Education of Children)

• Has never seen the father that due to a lack of paternal feelings for his child, denied him for being ill formed
• Children know bits of many things, but not a whole of one
• If I am to be in the art of knowing one thing, and you in the art of knowing another, that in no ways makes you better then I. For just because I do not excell in the subject you excell at, it is likewise that you have no  excellence in the subject I do.
• Never settled in one topic in life
• Subjects will soon run out of their meanings once you know it all
• Once you go as far as you can in one topic, you crave for more.
• In comparison to other writers, Michel pitied himself, that is until he realized he could analyze life well with great talent
• Writing is an ancient art
• (Apollodorus states:) " that should a man pick out of his writing s all that was none of his, he would leave him nothing but blank paper: whereas the latter, quite contrary, in 300 volumes that he left behind him, has not so much as any one quotation"
• Tries not to be hypocritical ( will not reprehend other writers for the same faults he has come accustomed too)
• He does not fight, yet challenges your strength? (I like this)
• Cheating is pitiful
• He wrote this book to discover himself
• The greatest and most important difficulty of human science is the education of children.
• Bringing up your children is a life long lesson, sometimes painful in the process  but worth it in the end.
• Never give a child too much authority or knowledge.
• Its about what you do with it, not that you have it.
• And if a child is to be taught, find a teacher with a "rather well made then well filled head"
• Speak to be spoken too
• Obest plerumque iis, qui discere volunt, auctoritas eorum, qui docent : For the most part brings harm to those who wish to learn, the authority of those who teach
• A tacher must teach from his mind, memory, and life...not from a book
• "Being captivated under  the authority of anothers instruction leaves us with no free nor natural pace of our own. Our own vigor and liberty are extinct and gone."
• Nunquam tutelae suae fiunt : Are never attained their
• Learn your own way or live without knowledge.
• Che, non men che sapar, dubbiar m' aggrata : Che, Che was not a thickened, dubbiar m aggrata
• Who follows another finds nothing
• Non sumus sub rege: sibi quisque se vindicet : We are not under the king, every man for himself claim
• Does not matter where you learned what you did as long as you can apply it to life.
• "The understanding that sees and hears, tis the understanding that improves everything..."
• A book is not a teacher (you learn by doing)
•  Neque, ut omnia, quae praescripta et imperata sint, defendat, necessitate ulla cogitur. : Does not follow, that all things that the provisions of the obey his commands, they may be, to defend, he is forced to the necessity of any.
• Those that do not do for themselves, willl never be anyone in life
•  You will find error in yourself, yet this is how you will grow
• Find the beauty in life along the way.
• Quae tellus sit lenta gelu, quae putris ab aestu, Ventus in Italiam quis bene vela ferat: That the earth may be slow ice, which is crumbling from the heat, wind in your sails may be one of Italy
• A teacher must let the student learn through self attainment
• Granted books are fair amounts of knowledge through which you met people of history, but still it is not a teacher.
•  Do not read as much as to come to judge them, reading should be a gift, not forced upon.
• It is conversing with others that puts our own focus off ourselves
• For the most part we stare  at our feet, if it were not for lifting our head (taking knowledge of the world) we would not know the wars that surround us. Yet the one that does not cry over lost souls is the one who has no strength to lift thy head.
• He hopes this is the book, his students will learn from.
• We are taught how to judge (true) (yet we change out viewpoint over time)
• Do not be afraid to explore the world
• Quid fas optare, quid asper Utile nummus habet; patriae carisque propinquis Quantum elargiri deceat; quem te Deus esse Jussit, et humana qua parte locatus es in re; Quid sumus, aut quidnam victuri gigimur. : To wish for what is right, what money has a useful rough; carisque of his country, to bestow on her relatives, as much as is fitting for thee, O God, whom He commanded it to be, and the human in a matter of what place you are, what we are, or what would have lived for Gigi.
• Et quo quemque modo fugiatque feratque laborem :  And how he is to flee or face each toil
• One must come to know ones self.
• Only read that that has use to you
• Sapere aude, Incipe; vivendi recte vui prorogat horam, Rusticus exspectat, dum deflaut amnis; at ille Labitur in omne volubilis oevum. : Dare to be wise, I begin to live right vui extended time, a rustic look for the river to run, he stumbles into the whole volume oevum.
• Quid moveant Pisces, animosaque signa Leonis, Lotus et Hesperia quid Capricornus aqua.: What breed fish, high standards of Leo, Capricorn, Lotus and Hesperian water.
• Ti, Pleiadessi Kamoi; Ti d' astrasin Booteo : (same)
• It saddens Michel that philosophy is looked down upon, yet once there was a time when it brought joy to a conversation
• Deprendas animi tormenta latentis in aegro Corpore; deprendas et guadia; sumit utrumque Inde habitum facies. : Discovered the secret of torture, sickness, and catch her joys, takes either From there, the face.
• It is by order and not by force that it is to be aquired
• Philosophy : that in which instructs us to live and that infancy has there lessons as well as other ages.
• Udum et molle lutum est; nunc, nunc properandus, et acri Fingendus sine fine rota : Udum the clay is soft, and now, now we have to hurry, and without the assumption of a sharp end of the wheel  (teach kids at a young age- philoshophy)
• The first few years a child is to be taught, the rest is based upon action. And philosophy can be proper for childhooh as well as adulthood
• Petite hinc, juvensque senesque, Finem animo certum, miserisque viatica canis :Ask here, young and old, with a fixed end, the poor dog, spending.
• Do not let knowledge get the best of you. To where you no longer find it fit to talk to others below you
• Society will put you down, you may be bright but not brilliant and thus are not noticable
• Every place is your study 
• Do not do what you already know how, instead what you know not of
• Aeque pauperibus prodest locupletibus aeque; et, neglecta, aeque pueris senibusque nocebit. Equally good for the rich to the poor alike, and, neglected, hurt the young and old alike
• Everything you do has its own rewards
• College is a real house of imprisonment?
• You must try new things in life, rather then be afraid of them.
•  Young bodies should be molded at this time
• Multum interest, utrum peccare ali quis nolit, an nesciat : It makes little difference whether a man is unwilling to commit, or does not know
• Omnis Aristippum decuit color, et status, et res.: All the color of Aristippus was fitting, and the state, and the matter.
• Quem duplici panno patientia velat, Mirabor, vitae via si conversa decebit, Personamque feret non inconcinnus utramque :Double cloth which covers the patience, I shall be surprised, if he converted to become the way of life, each person will not be awkward 
• Life is your lesson, and we will know if you practiced by who you become
• Qui disciplinam suam non ostentationem scientae, sed legem vitae putet: quique obtemperet ipse sibi, et decretis pareat.: Who does not display the discipline of his knowledge, but to think that a law of life: he is to himself and those who obey, and decrees, and they should obey.
• Verabaque praevisam rem non invita sequentur  :  And words are not foreseen to invite the following
• Quum res animum occupavere, verba ambiunt :When the mind occupied, surrounded by the words
• Ipsoe res verbe rapiunt: Take their own words
• There is no better words then that of the truth 
• Emunctae naris, durus componere versus :Cleaned out the nose, hard to compose verses  
• Tempora certa modosque, et, quod prius ordine verbum est, Posterius facias, praeponens ultima primis Ivenias etiam disjecti membra poetae :Modosque certain times, and, what is in the order of the word, at a future time you do so, also scattered over the last Ivenias the first place, the members of a poet to
•  Contora et aculeata sophismata :Whirled and pungent arguments
• Aut qui non verba rebus aptant,says, qui alicujus verbi decore placentis, vocentur ad id, quod non proposuerant scribere :Or who do not fit the words of things, says, who of any of the word beauty, cakes, are called to that, which is not intended to write
• Philosophy (like life) should not be hunted for (forced), it should come naturally (that that fits)
• Haec demum sapiet dictio, quae feriet:These wise words, which make
• A web is better then a straight figure
• Quae veritati operam dat oratio incomposita sit et simplex: Which fosters the truth is without form, and a simple prayer
• Quis accurate loquitur, nisi qui vult putide loqui? :Accurately Who speaks, but who wants to talk affectedly?
• Learning different languages expands oppurtunitys and knowledge
• Michel came to learn Latin by his German care giver in France
• His father was a man of wisdom, and tried to teach his son all that he could at a young age
• As a child, Michel was a slow witted boy. Yet had opinions further then his age
• Michel hated college, and found refuge in books (not being given to him) 
• If you do not follow a school's academic wishes, then you are deemed useless to society. (is that still true today?)
• Alter ab undecimo tum me vix ceperat annus:Showed that I had taken a year 
• You must feed your hunger of life, or be left doing nothing grand.

( Ch.3 : That fortune is often times observed to act by the rules of reason)

• Fortune is a greedy game, played by those with nothing to loose. (Ex. the man that poisoned the pope to gain his riches)
• Women can be artists in this game, for a man of France will never deny a lady of her wishes.
• Conjugis ante coacta novi dimittere collum, Quam veniens una atque altera rursus hyems Noctibus in longis avidum saturasset amorem : Wife compelled to release the new neck, which came the return of winter nights in the long satisfied her love of greed
• United, we can fight together (not always win though)

(Ch. 4 : Of Cannibals)

• Do not take the word of another without finding out the truth
• Judge from the eye of reason not of common report
• "Our eyes are bigger then our bellies" (Don't take more then you can handle)
• Haec loca, vi quondam, et vasta convulsa ruina, Dissiluisse ferunt, quum protenus utraque tellus Una foret :These places, once in force, and the destruction of vast convulsions, burst asunder, they say, when one of the two countries would be IMMEDIATELY
• Sterilisque diu palus, aptaque remis, Vicinas urbes alit, et grave sentit aratrum : Barren marsh, embrace, oars, feeds neighboring cities, and it feels heavy plow
•   Mother nature does as it pleases
• A new land was found, yet unless you wanted death brought upon you...you would not travel to that island.
• The most ignorant people give you the most truthful answers
•  There are those who change the truth to fit their ideals or to fit yours, as well as for personal gain and other non specific reasons in their life.
• Yet it is you who must make the choice on whether or not the person is telling the truth, and how far you are willing to believe. 
• We are scared of what we do not know, thus we judge it (sometime we judge it to be barbarick)
•  Et veniut hederae sponte sua melius; Surgit et in solis formosior arbutus antris; Et volucres nulla dulcius arte canunt:Ivy and come of their own accord better, more beautiful than the sun rose and the strawberry tree dens, and birds sing sweeter than art
• Plato states that all things are developed by either nature, fortune, or by art
• Form and fashion are those that develop over time, yet it is nature that develops time
• This new barbarous island, has no technology, no knowledge of fashions, and no philosophy, yet still it lies with nature
• Viri a diis recentes :The men, fresh from the gods
• Hos natura modos primum dedit :Nature imparted first;
• The natives are never sick, they have planty of food, they hunt and fish and use roots. They have houses made of tree bark
• They have no priests of prophets, except those that show up very rarely. Yet still they believe in the Gods and the wrongful doing of men
• They have wars with the other mainland tribes
• They will go and kill the other tribes, putting their heads on a stick and laying them in front of their home. Yet for extreme revenge they will eat them.
• Vascones, ut fama est, alimentis tailbus usi Produxere animas :Gascons, according to tradition, made ​​use of food produced the soul of tailbus
• They have wars for no other reason then jealousy of valor
• The men there have many wives 
• The prisoners know not what lies ahead for them
• Their happiness will one day be their ruin (for there are many who wish to have the same happiness in life and would do anything to get it)
• Michel talked to the king of the tribe about why he was the leader, he siad it was so he could be at the head of the army

(Ch.5 : Of War Horses, Or Desires)

• A man would go into battle on one horse yet would lead another next to him. That way if he needed to switch horses in the heat of it all, he could.
• Quibus, desultorum in modum, binos trahentibus, equos, interacerrimam saepe pugnam, in recentem equum, ex fesso, armatis transultare mos erat : tanta velocitas ipsis, tamque docile equorum genus.: Whereby, in the form of JUMPER, drawn by two and two, and horses, are often interacerrimam fight, in the horse to the fresh, from the tired, it was the custom of leaping armed men, so great was the velocity of them, and so an understanding of the horses.
• Riding a horse is good for the soul and health.
• Many great kings have dedicated statues with them upon a noble stead
• Caesar had a horse with feet like that http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=9019813930027344492#editor/target=post;postID=8598807050589287253of  a man
•  In some places the only way to tell if one was a free man was if he had a horse (the others walked)
• Quo haud dubie superat Romanus :Which was undoubtedly superior to the Roman
• Arma proferri jumenta produci, obsides dari  jubet :Weapons produced and cattle are produced, the hostages to be given to bids
•  Battles were better when fought on foot, for then it was your own doing to your demise or honor. Now if the horse wishes not to obey, it is your life that can be the cost.
• Caedebant pariter, pariterque ruebant Victores victique; neque his fuga nota, neque illis :They cut down together, and alike they fell victors and the vanquished; flight, well known, neither for them, nor have they.
• Though the weapons today have their use (javelin)
• Magnum stridens contorta Phalarcia venit, Fulminis acta modo :Phalarcia came a mighty hiss a whirled, acts as lightning
• Primus clamor atque impetus rem decernit :The first shout and charge decides to
• Industrialism is a threat in itself. For instance, a gun (may be better then a sword) but if one thing is made wrong or jammed your could loose your life. Yet with that sword only you are your own damnation. 
• Et, quo ferre velint, permittere vulnera ventis; Ensis habet vires; et gens quaecumque virorum est, Bella gerit gladiis :And in order to bear the wish to be, to allow the wounds of the winds; sword has no strength; and the nation of men, whatever it is, he wages war swords
•  Magnum stridens contorta Phalarcia venit, Fulminis acta modo:Phalarcia came a mighty hiss a whirled, acts as lightning
• Id quum majore vi equorum facietis, si effroenatos in hostes equos immittis quod saepe Romanos equites cum laude fecisse sua, memorioe proditum est... detractisque fraenis, bis ultro citroque cum magna strage hostium, infractis omnibus hastis, transcurrerunt :Since the majority of horses do, if effroenatos in the horses that turn the Roman cavalry have often been praised on his own, memorioe covered ... removed the reins, and twice to and fro, with a great slaughter upon the enemy, infringed all their spears, runs through the

 (Ch.6 : Of Democritus And Heraclitus)

• When writing these essays, Michel took that in which he knew and commented on such. Yet he does not know all of something, though something of everything. And he does not wish to talk about a subject that has been so often acknowledged that he can not possibly say something without it being said before. So thus, he came up with this book.
• The soul is a beautiful thing, taking flight with favored things. Yet being molded by qualities.
• Why judge someone else on what they love because you do not care for it?
•  Democritus And Heraclitus were two philosophers (one thought life was vain yet had a smile glued onto his face, the other thought life like us yet was always grim)
•  Alter Ridebat quoties a limine moverat unum Protuleratque pedem; flebat contrarius alter :The other laughed as they move from the threshold of one Protuleratque foot and wept against the other

 (Ch,7 : Of Age)

•  When is it fit to die?
• In this era living to 48 is a long time, most die from plague, battle, etc...
• Our souls are adults by 20
• Si I'espine nou picque quand nai A pene que picque jamai,:If he does not I'espine picque nai when the punishments picque jamai
• Most great actions were by people over 30
• Yet to his experience his understanding of things has decayed since reaching that age
•  Ubi jam validid quassatum est viribus aevi Corpus, et obtusis ceciderunt viribus artus, Claudicat ingenium, delirat linquaque, mensque.:Where now the strength of time the body is shattered, and fell, obtuse, the strength of the joints, the intellect limps, linquaque, mind.
• Sometimes with age, the body wilts faster then the mind. Other times it is the other way around

(Ch.8 : Of Drunkenness)

• Quos ultra, citraque nequit consistere rectum:Beyond them, right sides can not be fixed
• Nec vincet ratio hoc, tantumdem ut peccet, idemque, Qui teneros caules alieni fregerit horti, Et qui nocturnus dicum sacua legerit :Nor will this reason, as much as sin, but, he broke his own tender stalks of the garden, and that night had little sacua reads.
•  The measure of sins is dangerous
• Do not judge others before you judge yourself.
• Drunkenness is a brutish vice
• It renders the body stupid.
• Cum vini penetravit....  Consequitur gravitas membrorum, praepediuntur Crura vacillanti, tardescit lingua, madet mens, Nant oculi; clamor, singultuss, jurgia, gliscunt :When the wine has found its way .... Results from the gravity of the members, are deterred by the legs out of joint, SLOW tongue, his mind soaked, Nant eyes, crying, sobbing, brawls, signs
• The worst part is loosing yourself
• Tu sapientium Curas et arcanum jocoso Consilium retegis Lyaeo : You could understand the worries and secret humorous tale unveils plan
• Liquor makes you weak, yet truthful.
• Hesterno inflatum venas, de more, Lyaeo :Yesterday swollen veins, in the usual way, wine
• Nec facilis victoria de madidis, et  Blaesis, atque mero titubantibus :Nor is it an easy victory over the wet, and the platform of Blaesus, with wine and wavering
•  This vice is well spoken of. Being drunk is talked with low and high honor
• Hoc quoque virtutum quondam certamine, magnum Socratem palmam promeruisse ferunt :It also hosts a contest, the great Socrates deserved the palm bear
• Narratur et prisci Cantonis Saepe mero caluisse virtus :And the waning power of the narrative Cantonis often warmed with wine
• There will always be a price for everything, nothing is free.
• With alcohol your price is your conscious 
• Is our generation more addicted then our fathers? Why?
• A drink should be nothing but a substance to wash down food with
• Alcohol warms the soul 
• It gives young men gayety and old men their youth
• Can a man surpass alcohol?
•  Si munitae adhibet vim sapientiae :If he applies a strong force of wisdom
• Wisdom does not force our natural disposition 
• Sudores itaque, et pallorem exsistere toto Corpore, et infringi linguam, vocemque aboriri, Caligare oculos, Sonere aures, succidere artus, Denique concidere, ex animi terrore, videmus.: Sweat, therefore, be, and pallor in her whole body, and broken in spirit the Greek language and voice of those that disappear, the eyes become dim, let the ears, cut down limbs, short, and destroyed, from the terror in their mind, we see that.
• Humani a se nihil alienium putet: He thinks nothing human is foreign to
• Sic fatur lacrymans, classique immittit habenas : THUS he cries with tears, fleet the reins
•   You can not suppress your feelings
• Spumantemque dari, pecora inter inertia, votis Optat aprum, aut fulvum desendere monte leonem  :Foaming should be given, among helpless sheep, boar, asks for prayers, yellow, or descend the mountain lion
• You must be lifted from this life or sleep with sickness.

 (Ch. 9 : Of Glory)

• "There is the name and the thing. The name is a voice which denotes and signifies the things; the name is no part of the thing, nor of the substance..."
• Do we honor God or his name?
• There is nothing more dangerous then glory
• Deca vers nous, deca, otres-louable Ulysse, Et le plus grand honneur dont la Grece fleurisse:Nous verse decade, decade, otres-louable Ulysses, and the more you do honneur Grand Greek fleurisse
• "All the glory of the world was not worth an understanding man's holding out his finger to obtain it."
• Gloria quantalibet quid erit, si gloria tantum est? :Glory be, what will be, if it be glory and nothing else?
• "What we believe we do not believe" (?)
•  Glory is most wanted by many
• Paulum sepultae distat inertiae Celata virtus:Buried a little distance and inertia, that is concealed
• To be virtuous but in public is wrong
• We must care about ourselves for ourselves, not for others approval
• Virtue is vain and derives from glory
• "What is more accidental then fortune"
• Profecto fortuna in omni re dominatur: ea res cunctas ex libidine magis, quam ex vero, celebrat, obscuratque : In fact, Fortune rules in all things: it renders all things proceed from sensuality, rather than from well, however, celebrates, or obscure
• We must all find peace for ourselves, not vain glory
• An infinite number of brave actions must have been performed for glory to be called upon.
•   Brave men have been lost in occasions of little moments.
• Be known for being a great man, do not be great because you are known.
• Gloria nostra est testimonium conscientiae nostrae :Our honor is a testimony of our conscience
• Credo ch 'el resto di quel verno cose Facesse degne di tenerne conto; Ma fur sin da quel tempo si nascose, Che non e colpa mia s' or 'non le conto: Perche Orlando a far l 'opre virtuose, Piu ch' a narrale poi, sempre era pronto; Ne mai fu alcuno de' suoi fatti espresso, Se non quando ebbe i testimoni appresso :I believe The 'speech in the spring and the remainder di cose di tenerne degne Make a pole, but if you give a speech, of the thief of time, if nascose, Che is not the reward s ERROR' or 'not the pole, a perch, Orlando spelled l opre virtuously, Piu d' from narrale poi, Fronto has been always will be, not Mai fu alcuno of 'espresso suoi addressed, he did not when i bbe expression of appressed (translation fail)
• It is not for outward show that the soul is to play its part, but for ourselves within
• You can not please everyone
• Nil tam inoestimabile est, quam animi multitudnis :Nothing is so inoestimabile, as the assembled
• I can save myself or destroy myself
• Risi successu posse carere dolos :I laughed it possible for the success of schemes
• We like to feel commended, but we are too fond of it
• Laudari haud metuam, neque enim mihi cornea fibra est: Sed redti finemque, extremumque esse recuso, Euge tuum, et belle :Praised not be afraid, for I was a horny fiber, but redti end, I refuse to be the last, 'Well, your, and your left.(?)
• I do not care for the opinion of others, strangers see only your outward apperance.
• We do alot of things we wish not too with a happy apperance, while our hearts ache inside.
• Falsus honor juvat, et mendax infamia terret Quem, nisi mendosum et mendacem?  : A false honor, it is profitable to a liar, and calumny affright, Whom but the full of error and a liar
• You portray many different you's ....for instance, around your friends, around you family, around work, and alone
•  Non si quad turbida Roma Elevet, accedas; examenque improbum in illa Castiges trutina: nec te quaesveris extra. :Even if you have a four turbulent Rome had asked to go; examenque bad that the correct balance, do not you look outside.
• Nunc levior cippus non imprimit ossa. Laudat posteritas; nunc non e manibus illis, Nunc non e tumulo, fortunataque favilla, Nascuntur violae :Now lighter than the bones of the STAKE not make an impression. He praises his posterity from the hands of those not now, not now from the tomb, fortunataque ashes, grow violets.
•  Casus multis hic cognitus, ac jam Tritus, et e medio fortunae ductus acervo.:Many cases, the same is known, and now after pounding the fortune, and was led from the center of the heap.
•  Ad nos vix tenuis famae perlabitur aura: Scarcely is wafted to us some scant breath of fame
• Why is it some get glory for little, yet those who dies for our country get little to no recognition
• Who considers the portions of glory?
• Recti facti, fecisse merces est: officii fructus, ipsum officium est. :A good deed, the reward is to have done: the fruit of his office, the same function it is.
• In ferrum mens prona viris, animaeque capaces Mortis, et ignavum est rediturae parcere vitae: In the iron men of the table, capable of death, soul, and it is cowardly to return to spare the life
• Ut enim consuetudo loquitur, id solum dicitur honestum, quod est populari fama gloriosum: For, as the custom of speaking, that is said to be the only honorable, and by government of the people is glorious in report
• Quae, quia non liceat, non sacit, illa facit :What, not because she may, it is not satisfied, causes those to
• Every woman of honor would rather loose her honor then hurt her conscience 

 (Ch.10 : Of Persumption)

• Another type of glory is having too good of an opinion about yourself
• Yet do not think yourself low
• Take from others on how you are (wrong!)
• Ille velut fidis arcana sodalibus olim Credebat libris, neque si male cesserat, usquam Decurrens alio, neque si bene: quo fit, ut omnis, Votiva pateat veluti descripta tabella Vita senis :He once believed that members of a secret trust books, or if they turned out, running down anywhere else, or if, it happens to all, as votive offerings available documents described the life of the elderly
• Always comit your thoughts to paper, it helps the soul
• Nec id Rutilio et Scauro citra fidem, aut obtrectationi fuit :Nor on this side of the faith that Rutilius and Scaurus, or the motives
• We all have our own quirks, sometimes that of which pride derives. For instance, rolling the eyes, scuffing the nose, etc..
• Motions of the soul
• Two parts of glory, one is too high an opinion of ourselves and the other is to low an opinion of others
• He says he does not have glory (if there are two parts of glory, how is it he has neither with being human)
• Designs everything by chance but in fear
• There are ti many presumptions about men and woman
• You have no right to judge me
•  Mediocribus esse poetis Non dii, non homines, non concessere columnae: It is not the gods of the poets to be moderate and just degrees, not men, would not allow the column
• Verum Nihil securius est malo poeta :But nothing safer than a bad poet
•  His work disgust him (?)
• Cum relego, scripsisse pudet; quia plurima cerno, Me quoque, qui feci, judice, digna lini:When banish, I am ashamed of, because I see many, me, too, who I have done, the judge, deserves to be erased
•  Why is it you can not catch a dream?
• Si quid enim placet, Si quid dulce hominum sensibus influi, Debentur lepidis omnia Gratiis.:For if a thing is pleasing, if a burning man's senses, what is sweet, charming of all grace, are due.
• Do not follow what the world wants from you, be yourself.
•  Brevis esse laboro, Obscurus fio :I struggle to be brief, an unknown becomes
• Has lost the use of Latin (Obviously)
• Be sure your soul does not abandon you body (do not loose yourself)
• Agros divisere atque dedere Pro facie cujusque, et viribus, ingenaque; Nam facies multum valuit, viresq :hey divide the fields, and gave for the face of every man, and power, ingenaque; For the face of much prevailed, and viresq
• Beauty is seen as without but truly it is within.
• Ipse inter primos praestanti corpore Turnus Vertitur, arma tenes, et toto vertice supra est.:Himself too, amid the foremost, Turnus, the body turns, you hold in your arms, and with all the top above the rest
• You pay for your ugliness (they mean this literally but if you were to talk metaphorically it would be a much better representation)
• No body is perfect
• Unde rigent setis mihi crura, et pectora villis :So my legs are stiff bristles, and the hearts of villages
• Over 40 years old (Michel)
• Minutatim vires et robur adultum Frangit, et in partem pejorem liquitur aetas :Small, the strength and the strength of the smash up, and the worse floods for age
• Ever day I escape and steal away from myself
• Singula de nobis anni praedantur euntes :Each year of our hunts going.
• He had a very lively father, yet is unlike him in most ways. He does nothing great, but does try.
• Molliter austerum studio fallente laborem :Gently dry with a deceptive labor
• He belives he is good for nothing, yet will strain over nothing either (low self esteem?)
• Tanti mihi non sit opaci Omnis arena Tagi, quodque in mare volvitur aurum :The advantage for me is not all dark sand of Tagus, which is turning gold into the sea.
• Has a free soul, and no master
• Has a lazy disposition  
• Non agimur tumidis velis Aquilone secundo, Non tamen adversis aetatem ducimus  Austris; Viribus, ingenio, specie, virtue, loco, re, Extremi primorum, extremis usque priores :Do not you wish we were driven by the swelling of the North, we are not still the age of the South: the strength, talent, beauty, virtue, place, thing, extremes of the first, as far as the former.
• We always want more then we have.
•  What we grave is more for the use then the need of them
• Haec nempe supersunt Quae dominum fallunt, quae prosunt furibus.And thus the history of the cheat, which benefit thieves.
• If you know not what you have, you not not what you could loose
• Fortune take a lot of care
• Your time could be best spent else where, rather then focusing on the negative.
• (Noticing) He avoids a lot of things.
• He does not choose a road, rather goes where ever the wind takes him.
• Dubia plus torquent mala : Doubtful for more than a bad turn
• Carries himself like a man, but in conduct like a child.
• Anxiety is a bigger fear then the actual jump .
• Do not trouble yourself for uncertain hope.
• Spem pretio non emo:Hope the price does not buy.
• Alter remus aquas, alter tibi radat arenas :One oar on the water, scraping the sand for you.
• Capienda rebus in malis praeceps via est: Take the bad things go his way;
•  Cul sit conditio dulcis sine pulvere palmae: Fault condition is sweet palm without the dust;
• Turpe est, quod nequeas, capiti committere pondus, Et pressum inflexo mox dare terga genu. :It is a shame what you can not, the head of the weight of to commit, and pressing it down as soon as by managing the breath to give back with his knee.
• Nunc si depositum non inficiatur amicus, Si reddat veterem cum tota aerugine follem, Prodigiosa fides, et Tuscis digna libellis, Quaeque coronata lustrari debeat agna.:Now, if the deposit should not be infected by a friend, If he restore the old bellows, verdigris with the whole of a miraculous faith, and worthy of the Etruscan books, Or what ought to be examined, crowned lamb.
•  Business should be based on truth not deception (For that makes a real human)
• Do not hide behind a mask, it is pitiful
• Michel wishes not to lie, but is surprised when he does ( how are you surprised by what you thought up?)
• Quo quis verisuitior et callidior est, hoc invisior et supectior, detracta opinione probitatis:Versuitior and which one is the most cunning, hated and supectior took his reputation for probity.
• Prideful, likes respect, troublesome rather then flatterer, and no consideration of others (michel)
• Memory is a tricky game.
• Why is it, what we do by accident we can usually not do by design.
• Plenus rimarum sum, hac atque illac perfluo. :I searched the full am, this way and that ROLL.
• I loose what I tried to keep safe.
• Why is it we all have a different way our memory works? Some can remember long periods of time, others short periods.
• Michel says there is no soul as awkward as mine. For he is ignorant of common things.
• He gives examples of what he does not know (does he pride himself on this?)
• Nasutus sis usque licet, sis denique nasus, Quantum noleurit ferre rogatus Atlas; Et possis ipsum tu deridere Latinum, Non potes in nugas dicere plura meas, Ipse ego quam dixi: quid dentem dente juvabit Rodere? carne opus est, si satur esse velis. Ne perdas operam; qui se mirantur, in illos Virus habe; nos haec novimus esse nihil.:WITTY, even though you are, you are fine, the nose, as he was asked to noleurit Atlas and I can make fun of you the very Latin, in the trash, you can not say more, my, I, myself, as I said, what delight to chew on a tooth a tooth? the work of the flesh is, if you wish to be full. Do not you waste your time, who they admire, and to them, have a man, we know this to be nothing.
• Ne si, ne no, nel cor mi suona intero. :If not, no, no, my heart Not suona asked.
• I can maintain an opinion, but cannot choose one.
• Dum in dubio est animus, paulo momento hue atque Illuc impellitur.:While your mind is in doubt, a little to and fro in a moment, it is displaced.
• Human reason runs the hazard of uncertain choice
• Michel does not easily change 
• Ipsa consuetudo assentiendi periculosa esse videtur, et lubrica
• Justa pari premitur veluti cum pondere libra, Prona, nec hac plus parte sedet, nec surgit ab illa:Just the same as when oppressed by the weight of the balance, prone, neither this more than the sits, from that, did not rise
•  Can something be strong yet fragile?
• Caedimur, et totidem plagis consumimus hostem : Cut, and consume as many quarters of the enemy
• If you lie about simple things, you have no real care for choosing things.
• The better government is change
• Wishes he could stop change from happening (?)
• Numquam adeo foedis, adeoque pudendis Utimur exemplis, ut non pejora supersint,:Never so foul, so shameful examples we use, so as not worse than the left,
• It is easy to blame someone or something else for it's imperfection, when all things contain it.
• How can you judge someone else, when you do not judge yourself. (Do we not all judge ourselves?)
• Thank God for human sense.
• Who does not think high of their opinions  (true)
• Mihi nempe valere et vivere doctus.:To me, that is, keep well, and taught to live.
• I have no other buisness but myself.
• Nemo in sese tentat descendere, :No one in their attempts to come down,
•  Born with his imagination. 
• Omnine si quidquam est decorum, nihil est profecto magis, quam aequabilitas universae vitae, tum singularum actionum, quam conservare non possis, si, aliorum naturam imitans omittas tuam.:Is there any thing at all about if a handsome, there is indeed nothing more than the equality of the whole of life, as well as actions of the individual, which you can not keep, if, imitating the others say nothing of the nature of your.
•  Never lies, and talks highly of friends
• Men have several fine parts: wit, courage, address, language, conscience, science, etc..
• Marie de Gournay le Jars : His adopted daughter
•  Michel is 55 years old now
• His daughter is the love of his life, considers her opinions great.

(Ch.11 : That We Taste Nothing Pure)

• Nothing pure can fall into our hands
• Medio de fonte leporum, Surgit amari aliquid, quod in ipsis floribus angat.:In the middle of the very fountain of enchantment, got up, to be loved something, even in the flowers torment.
• Full contents is more grave then merry (why?)
• Why is it that at times of melancholy (sadness) that we find joy?
• Est quaedam flere voluptas. :There is a certain pleasure in crying. ***
• Minister vetuli, puer, Falerni Inger' mi calices amaroires:The ministers are old, young, Inger Falernian "My amaroires cups.
•  Even laughter can bring tears
• Nullum sine auctoramento malum est.:No evil is the outstanding.
•  If you listen to yourself you may find  the sound of human mixture
• Omne magnum exemplum rependitur,:Every great example of the return,
• When you doubt the unlikely, you may be ignoring the truth. 

 (Ch.12 : Of Thumbs)

•  Barbarian kings, to make a firm obligation, would shake hands while intertwisting their thumbs - to the point of straining blood to appear, would then prick their thumbs and mutually suck them.
• Sed nec vocibus excitata blandis, Molli Pollice nec rogata, surgit.:Encouraged but not smooth, soft and not asking for the thumb, it is raised.
• Fautor utroque tuum luadabit pollice ludum: Supporter of both commend your thumb game;
• Converso pollice vulgi, Quemlibet occidunt populariter.:Around the thumb of the people, slay each.
• Thumbs are the superior parts of the hand
• Some would chastised their scholars by biting their thumbs

(Ch.13 : Of Resemblance Of Children To Their Fathers.)

• Never corrects his first to a second conception (Is that possible?)
• Calls it a great horror to grow up like his father.?
• Wished he would of seen the signs sooner
• Must find comfort with in the not comfortable.
•   Debilem facito manu, Debilem pede, coxa, Lubricos quate dentes; Vita dum superest, bene est.:  Make a weak hand, weak feet, hips, and shake the teeth slippery; life while the rest, well done.
• Gets very sick, very often. Yet see's it as a blessing, because now he is less scared of death
• We are made to be, not made to be seen.
• Pugiles etiam, quum feriunt, in jactandis caestibus ingemiscunt, quia profundenda voce omne corpus intenditur, venitque plaga vehementior.:Champions, too, when they hit, the cast gloves groan, every body is intended for the burst of sound, came the plague of violence.
  
•  Do not trouble yourself with superfluous rules
• Ejulatu, questu, gemitu, fremitibus Resonado, multum flebiles voces refert:Cries, laments, a groan, his roaring Resonado, to the great tearful the words he speaks: 
• His pains make it to where he no longer wishes to eat.
• Laborum Nulla mihi nova nunc facies inopinaque surgit; Omnia praecepi, atque animo mecum ante peregi. :Unhoped me there is no new labors will you do now: it shall rise; All things I have commanded, and have reviewed it before the mind with me.
•  Some nations would assign a father a child by resemblance 
• Michel is scared not to end up like his father, but die like his father. With a kidney stone in his blatter
• His father felt this pain begin at 67. 
• Michel was born 25 years before his fathers death.
• Michel had many brothers and sister, yet he was the only one to get the same disease his father got.
• Michel's symptoms began at age 45
• Dad  died at 44 years old
• Grandfather died at 69
• And Great grandfather died at almost 40
•  Human things are usually not constant
• Health is one thing a man should work for. For without it life is wearisome
• I mistrust inventions for they abandon nature and her rules
• He fears his sickness by what he has seen of it. It takes long to heal (if it does) and then with all the altering medicine given , it changes who people are.
• He will not take medicine
• Believes other nations to live long because they do not use medicine
• Fear stops us from life
• Rhedarum transitus arcto Vicorum inflexu;Chariots passing close streets bent;
• A physician is more to send life's to the grave then to save
•  Likes to talk about himself, in matters of concern.
• God knows it is hard for us to understand all of life.
• Some would go to such an extreme to get the stone cut out and risk death
• Heat relaxes the soul
• Bathing is generally wholesome (generally?)
• Water is a common fixture upon nations. Some bath in it, others drink it, etc..
• The body is one with the brain and heart.
• The fear before death that is scary
• Why is it we fear being alone, or rather is it being with ourselves?

(Of Repentance)

• All things continually move
• You should always change with time
• Learn and make trial
• If the world fines fault with me, let them think so much about themselves
• Every piece of life has art in it
• You must love what you do <3
• "As much as I dare; thus I dare a little the more"
• Wishes for a better memory. (Why?)
•  That that is guarded will never know true life
• There is no complete satisfaction for those who seek security in their daily lives
• Others do not see you like you see yourself
• "Tuo tibi judicio est utendum... Virtutis et vitiorum grave ipsius conscientiae pondus est: qua sublata, jacent omnia.": "To you, in your judgment of conscience is a heavy weight is to be used ... of power, and of vice, which it was lifted up, lie on all things."
• To repent after a sin, is not to fix it. Simply to make ones own mind believe that its okay again
• "Quae mens est hodie, cur eadem non puero fuit? Vel cur his animis incolumes non redeunt genae.?" ;What the mind is at this day, why not the same as it was a boy? Or why does the minds of these do not return in safety cheeks.?"
•  We are all differnt then to what we appear to be
• Why does it matter what others see of you?
• They live in the present to obtain a name after death?
• We prepare ourselves for certain occasions usually out of glory then conscience.
• Those who spend their days judging others usually do not have great insight to themselves