Aristotle
In the Essays of Michel de Montaigne
There are 83 instances of Aristotle in 27 chapters.
Normalized frequency of Aristotle in the Essays
- Book 1 · Chapter 3 · ¶ 6.
Our Attachments Outlive Us earned, and relegating those first in merit to last place in rank. Aristotle, who looks into all things, wonders about Solon’s statement∗ that no one …
- Book 1 · Chapter 19 · ¶ 59.
To Philosophize Is to Learn to Die for long and short is irrelevant to things that no longer are. Aristotle says that there are small creatures on the river Hypanis that live …
- Book 1 · Chapter 22 · ¶ 15.
On Custom and Not Easily Changing an Accepted Law in their family. It is as much by custom as infirmity, says Aristotle, that women tear their hair, bite their nails, and eat coals and …
- Book 1 · Chapter 24 · ¶ 9.
On Pedantry lives, with all their industry, have raked so much together. That which Aristotle reports of some who called both him and Anaxagoras, and others of …
- Book 1 · Chapter 24 · ¶ 16.
On Pedantry these were the manners of Plato; these are the very words of Aristotle: but what do we say ourselves? What do we judge? A parrot …
- Book 1 · Chapter 25 · ¶ 2.
On the Education of Children than that, and to have cudgelled my brains in the study of Aristotle, the monarch of all modern learning, or particularly addicted myself to any …
- Book 1 · Chapter 25 · ¶ 22.
On the Education of Children all solid imagination, and of all truth, was an absolute conformity to Aristotle’s doctrine; and that all besides was nothing but inanity and chimera; for …
- Book 1 · Chapter 25 · ¶ 23.
On the Education of Children and lodge nothing in his fancy upon simple authority and upon trust. Aristotle’s principles will then be no more principles to him, than those of …
- Book 1 · Chapter 25 · ¶ 69.
On the Education of Children hundred students have got the pox before they have come to read Aristotle’s lecture on temperance. Cicero said, that though he should live two men’s …
- Book 1 · Chapter 25 · ¶ 70.
On the Education of Children I am of Plutarch’s mind, that Aristotle did not so much trouble his great disciple with the knack of …
- Book 1 · Chapter 25 · ¶ 116.
On the Education of Children a book De Comitiis Romanorum; William Guerente, who wrote a comment upon Aristotle; George Buchanan, that great Scottish poet; and Mark Antony Muret (whom both …
- Book 1 · Chapter 27 · ¶ 4.
On Friendship nature seems so much to have inclined us, as to society; and Aristotle, says that the good legislators had more respect to friendship than to …
- Book 1 · Chapter 27 · ¶ 21.
On Friendship of the ordinary and customary ones, and to which the saying that Aristotle had so frequent in his mouth, “O my friends, there is no …
- Book 1 · Chapter 27 · ¶ 21.
On Friendship one soul in two bodies (according to that very proper definition of Aristotle), they can neither lend nor give anything to one another. This is …
- Book 1 · Chapter 30 · ¶ 8.
On Cannibals which some would apply this discovery of the New World, is in Aristotle; at least, if that little book of Unheard-of miracles be his. He …
- Book 1 · Chapter 30 · ¶ 8.
On Cannibals as to supplant themselves and ruin their state. But this relation of Aristotle no more agrees with our new-found lands than the other. …
- Book 1 · Chapter 54 · ¶ 6.
On Vain Subtleties and an immoderate heat. Extreme coldness and extreme heat boil and roast. Aristotle says, that sows of lead will melt and run with cold and the …
- Book 2 · Chapter 2 · ¶ 43.
On Drunkenness for a sober-minded man to knock at the door of poetry: so Aristotle says that no excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness; …
- Book 2 · Chapter 6 · ¶ 41.
On Practice which is under a man’s value is pusillanimity and cowardice, according to, Aristotle. No virtue assists itself with falsehood; truth is never matter of error. …
- Book 2 · Chapter 8 · ¶ 10.
On the Affection of Fathers for Their Children in truth, not only old age, but all other imbecility, according to Aristotle, is the promoter of avarice; that is something, but it is physic …
- Book 2 · Chapter 8 · ¶ 14.
On the Affection of Fathers for Their Children in the opinion of thirty-five, which is said to be that of Aristotle. Plato will have nobody marry before thirty; but he has reason to …
- Book 2 · Chapter 8 · ¶ 57.
On the Affection of Fathers for Their Children the loss of the one than of the other. For according to Aristotle, the poet, of all artificers, is the fondest of his work. ’Tis …
- Book 2 · Chapter 11 · ¶ 27.
On Cruelty The Peripatetics also disown this indissoluble connection; and Aristotle is of opinion that a prudent and just man may be intemperate …
- Book 2 · Chapter 12 · ¶ 87.
Apology for Raymond Sebond difference of countries, is also observed in animals of the same kind. Aristotle, in proof of this, instances the Various calls of partridges, according to …
- Book 2 · Chapter 12 · ¶ 108.
Apology for Raymond Sebond with line and hook, there is also the like among other animals. Aristotle says that the cuttle-fish casts a gut out of her throat as …
- Book 2 · Chapter 12 · ¶ 115.
Apology for Raymond Sebond swan and nightingale music; and by several animals to make medicines: — Aristotle is of opinion “That the nightingales teach their young ones to sing, …
- Book 2 · Chapter 12 · ¶ 171.
Apology for Raymond Sebond solstice, and never stir thence till the next equinox; for which reason Aristotle himself attributes to them this science. As to geometry and arithmetic, they …
- Book 2 · Chapter 12 · ¶ 201.
Apology for Raymond Sebond we conceive the knowledge of so many things was to Yarro and Aristotle? Did it exempt them from human inconveniences? Were they by it freed …
- Book 2 · Chapter 12 · ¶ 216.
Apology for Raymond Sebond am going to speak of all things;” and that foolish title that Aristotle prefixes to one of his, order only afforded him a few lucid …
- Book 2 · Chapter 12 · ¶ 269.
Apology for Raymond Sebond rest; these three things have no access to him. For which reason Aristotle holds him equally exempt from virtue and vice. …
- Book 2 · Chapter 12 · ¶ 289.
Apology for Raymond Sebond better to keep out of this hurly-burly? You are permitted to embrace Aristotle’s opinions of the immortality of the soul with as much zeal as …
- Book 2 · Chapter 12 · ¶ 297.
Apology for Raymond Sebond Aristotle ordinarily heaps up a great number of other men’s opinions and beliefs, …
- Book 2 · Chapter 12 · ¶ 299.
Apology for Raymond Sebond Why hath not Aristotle only, but most of the philosophers, affected difficulty, if not to set …
- Book 2 · Chapter 12 · ¶ 302.
Apology for Raymond Sebond Chrysippus said “That what Plato and Aristotle had writ, concerning logic, they had only done in sport, and by …
- Book 2 · Chapter 12 · ¶ 330.
Apology for Raymond Sebond a certain power governing all things, and that he has a soul. Aristotle one while says it is the spirit, and another the world; one …
- Book 2 · Chapter 12 · ¶ 452.
Apology for Raymond Sebond extended to the schools and arts. The god of scholastic knowledge is Aristotle; ’tis irreligion to question any of his decrees, as it was those …
- Book 2 · Chapter 12 · ¶ 452.
Apology for Raymond Sebond in every thing it meddles withal, as I should the opinion of Aristotle upon this subject of the principles of natural things; which principles he …
- Book 2 · Chapter 12 · ¶ 456.
Apology for Raymond Sebond who enjoy the happiness of a long, quiet, and peaceable life, without Aristotle’s precepts, and without the knowledge of the name of physics; this answer …
- Book 2 · Chapter 12 · ¶ 466.
Apology for Raymond Sebond Let us not forget Aristotle, who held the soul to be that which naturally causes the body …
- Book 2 · Chapter 12 · ¶ 467.
Apology for Raymond Sebond and Hierophilus place it in the ventricle of the brain; Democritus and Aristotle throughout the whole body …
- Book 2 · Chapter 12 · ¶ 519.
Apology for Raymond Sebond that the owl’s eyes are to the splendor of the sun, says Aristotle. By what can we better convince him, than by so gross blindness …
- Book 2 · Chapter 12 · ¶ 520.
Apology for Raymond Sebond to fly to the refuge of the Academy. No one doubts what Aristotle has established upon this subject, no more than all the ancients in …
- Book 2 · Chapter 12 · ¶ 536.
Apology for Raymond Sebond whole mass of the body; Epicurus, an extract from soul and body; Aristotle, an excrement drawn from the aliment of the blood, the last which …
- Book 2 · Chapter 12 · ¶ 536.
Apology for Raymond Sebond do its work, how many contrary opinions do they set on foot? Aristotle and Democritus are of opinion that women have no sperm, and that …
- Book 2 · Chapter 12 · ¶ 585.
Apology for Raymond Sebond may start up which may damn the second. Before the principles that Aristotle introduced were in reputation, other principles contented human reason, as these satisfy …
- Book 2 · Chapter 12 · ¶ 591.
Apology for Raymond Sebond change into one another; that the beginning of the world is undetermined; Aristotle and Cicero both say the same; and some among us are of …
- Book 2 · Chapter 12 · ¶ 591.
Apology for Raymond Sebond the Chaldees kept a register of four hundred thousand and odd years, Aristotle, Pliny, and others, that Zoroaster flourished six thousand years before Plato’s time. …
- Book 2 · Chapter 12 · ¶ 613.
Apology for Raymond Sebond which is the drift of the Pyrrhonian sect; Aristotle attributes the admiring nothing to magnanimity; and Arcesilaus said, that constancy and …
- Book 2 · Chapter 16 · ¶ 14.
On Glory followed, as those commonly are that are most suitable to our inclinations. Aristotle gives it the first place among external goods; and avoids, as too …
- Book 2 · Chapter 17 · ¶ 35.
On Presumption Little men, says Aristotle, are pretty, but not handsome; and greatness of soul is discovered in …
- Book 2 · Chapter 17 · ¶ 76.
On Presumption make itself seen within; all there is good, or at least human. Aristotle reputes it the office of magnanimity openly and professedly to love and …
- Book 2 · Chapter 17 · ¶ 107.
On Presumption all the rest you have to say worth? Whoever is ignorant of Aristotle, according to their rule, is in some sort ignorant of himself; vulgar …
- Book 2 · Chapter 27 · ¶ 12.
Cowardice, Mother of Cruelty It was told to Aristotle that some one had spoken ill of him: “Let him do more,” …
- Book 2 · Chapter 31 · ¶ 1.
On Anger and government of their fathers? The most of our civil governments, as Aristotle says, “leave, after the manner of the Cyclopes, to every one the …
- Book 2 · Chapter 31 · ¶ 28.
On Anger A word more to conclude this argument. Aristotle says, that anger sometimes serves for arms to virtue and valor. That …
- Book 2 · Chapter 36 · ¶ 2.
On the Most Excellent Men One of them Homer: not that Aristotle and Varro, for example, were not, peradventure, as learned as he; nor …
- Book 2 · Chapter 36 · ¶ 13.
On the Most Excellent Men has been none since that could imitate him.” His words, according to Aristotle, are the only words that have motion and action, the only substantial …
- Book 2 · Chapter 37 · ¶ 20.
On the Resemblance of Children to Their Fathers he who was not born so was looked upon as illegitimate. And Aristotle says that in a certain nation, where the women were in common, …
- Book 2 · Chapter 37 · ¶ 50.
On the Resemblance of Children to Their Fathers brought it into repute; whatever he established, Chrysippus overthrew; after that, Erasistratus, Aristotle’s grandson , overthrew what Chrysippus had written; after these, the Empirics started …
- Book 3 · Chapter 2 · ¶ 14.
On Repentance great or greater difficulty than the others do; and private men, says Aristotle, serve virtue more painfully and highly than those in authority do: we …
- Book 3 · Chapter 3 · ¶ 4.
On Three Kinds of Relations with greater facility addict ourselves. ’Tis the business of the gods, says Aristotle, and from which both their beatitude and ours proceed. The principal use …
- Book 3 · Chapter 5 · ¶ 41.
On Some Verses of Virgil become more public for being suppressed? For my part, I will take Aristotle at his word, who says, that “bashfulness is an ornament to youth, …
- Book 3 · Chapter 5 · ¶ 56.
On Some Verses of Virgil amorous licence, as I think I have said elsewhere. A man, says Aristotle, must approach his wife with prudence and temperance, lest in dealing too …
- Book 3 · Chapter 5 · ¶ 177.
On Some Verses of Virgil thoughts and actions, he understands it not. I do not find in Aristotle most of my ordinary motions; they are there covered and disguised in …
- Book 3 · Chapter 5 · ¶ 193.
On Some Verses of Virgil what we have made: the one is injury, the other favor: for Aristotle says that to do any one a kindness, in a certain phrase …
- Book 3 · Chapter 6 · ¶ 3.
On Coaches this civil reception: do not laugh at this distinction; they say ’tis Aristotle’s. …
- Book 3 · Chapter 6 · ¶ 12.
On Coaches expense to be the true fruit of abundance. They are delights, says Aristotle, that a only please the baser sort of the people, and that …
- Book 3 · Chapter 8 · ¶ 18.
On the Art of Discussion his hood, and his Latin, let him not batter our ears with Aristotle, pure and simple, you will take him for one of us, or …
- Book 3 · Chapter 9 · ¶ 52.
On Vanity with as much health and length of life as any Plato or Aristotle could invent. …
- Book 3 · Chapter 9 · ¶ 105.
On Vanity When Thetis, says Aristotle, flatters Jupiter, when the Lacedaemonians flatter the Athenians, they do not put …
- Book 3 · Chapter 9 · ¶ 106.
On Vanity more avoided receiving than sought occasions of giving, and moreover, according to Aristotle, it is more easy. My fortune has allowed me but little to …
- Book 3 · Chapter 9 · ¶ 215.
On Vanity good sooth, I mortally hate, and would avoid it if I could. Aristotle boasts somewhere in his writings that he affected it: a vicious affectation. …
- Book 3 · Chapter 12 · ¶ 11.
On Physiognomy of the earth, prone and intent upon their business, that neither know Aristotle nor Cato, example nor precept; from these nature every day extracts effects …
- Book 3 · Chapter 12 · ¶ 56.
On Physiognomy is dying; and then he does it with a better grace than Aristotle, upon whom death presses with a double weight, both of itself and …
- Book 3 · Chapter 12 · ¶ 64.
On Physiognomy simplicity and vehemence? Truly, it is much more easy to speak like Aristotle, and to live like Caesar, than to speak and live as Socrates …
- Book 3 · Chapter 12 · ¶ 70.
On Physiognomy an idle thing, taken out of some ancient poet: “health, beauty, riches.” Aristotle says that the right of command appertains to the beautiful; and that, …
- Book 3 · Chapter 12 · ¶ 86.
On Physiognomy commit faults, than that I should have the heart to condemn them.❦ Aristotle, ’tis said, was reproached for having been too merciful to a wicked …
- Book 3 · Chapter 13 · ¶ 7.
On Experience makes it manifest, that so many interpretations dissipate truth, and break it. Aristotle wrote to be understood; if he could not do this, much less …
- Book 3 · Chapter 13 · ¶ 15.
On Experience scourge them, are but the dandlings and caressings of maternal love; as Aristotle, whose valuing and undervaluing himself often spring from the same air of …
- Book 3 · Chapter 13 · ¶ 30.
On Experience transported him, will see the deformity of this passion better than in Aristotle, and conceive a more just hatred against it; whoever will remember the …
- Book 3 · Chapter 13 · ¶ 55.
On Experience subject, setting aside the examples I have gathered from books, and what Aristotle says of Andron the Argian, that he traveled over the arid sands …
- Book 3 · Chapter 13 · ¶ 115.
On Experience this, but there are wonderful instances of it that Socrates, Xenophon, and Aristotle, men of irreproachable authority, relate. Historians say that the Atlantes never dream; …
- Book 3 · Chapter 13 · ¶ 143.
On Experience There are some, as Aristotle says, who out of a savage kind of stupidity dislike them; and …