Brutus
In the Essays of Michel de Montaigne
There are 18 instances of Brutus in 14 chapters.
Normalized frequency of Brutus in the Essays
- Book 1 · Chapter 40 · ¶ 11.
The Taste of Good and Bad Things Depends Mostly on the Opinion We Have of Them of household killing themselves in a week. Likewise the Xanthians, whose town Brutus besieged, all rushed to their death — men, women, and children — …
- Book 1 · Chapter 40 · ¶ 11.
The Taste of Good and Bad Things Depends Mostly on the Opinion We Have of Them that they did not do to leave life. So much so that Brutus could barely save a few.❦ …
- Book 1 · Chapter 47 · ¶ 11.
On the Uncertainty of Our Judgment step in to favor the first, of which opinion was Sertorius, Philopoemen, Brutus, Caesar, and others, that it is to a soldier an enflaming of …
- Book 1 · Chapter 50 · ¶ 6.
On Democritus and Heraclitus Of the same strain was Statilius’ answer, when Brutus courted him into the conspiracy against Caesar; he was satisfied that the …
- Book 2 · Chapter 2 · ¶ 40.
On Drunkenness Plutarch, that excellent and perfect judge of human actions, when he sees Brutus and Torquatus kill their children, begins to doubt whether virtue could proceed …
- Book 2 · Chapter 3 · ¶ 31.
A Custom of the Island of Cea so that he saw himself delivered without any manner of inconvenience. Whereas Brutus and Cassius, on the contrary, threw away the remains of the Roman …
- Book 2 · Chapter 8 · ¶ 52.
On the Affection of Fathers for Their Children befell Cremutius Cordus, who being accused of having in his books commended Brutus and Cassius, that dirty, servile, and corrupt Senate, worthy a worse master …
- Book 2 · Chapter 10 · ¶ 27.
On Books world. I have a thousand times lamented the loss of the treatise Brutus wrote upon Virtue, for it is well to learn the theory from …
- Book 2 · Chapter 10 · ¶ 27.
On Books preached and the preacher are different things, I would as willingly see Brutus in Plutarch, as in a book of his own. I would rather …
- Book 2 · Chapter 10 · ¶ 28.
On Books have not stuck to observe some faults in it: as that great Brutus his friend, for example, who said ’twas a broken and feeble eloquence, …
- Book 2 · Chapter 18 · ¶ 1.
On Calling Out Lies the journals of Alexander the Great, the commentaries that Augustus, Cato, Sylla, Brutus, and others left of their actions; of such persons men love and …
- Book 2 · Chapter 19 · ¶ 6.
On Freedom of Conscience the flower of his glory. He had a vision like that of Marcus Brutus, that first threatened him in Gaul, and afterward appeared to him in …
- Book 2 · Chapter 31 · ¶ 12.
On Anger who only feigns. Hear Cicero speak of the love of liberty: hear Brutus speak of it, the mere written words of this man sound as …
- Book 2 · Chapter 33 · ¶ 4.
The Story of Spurina Aegisthus. Besides all these, he entertained Servilia, Cato’s sister and mother to Marcus Brutus, whence, every one believes, proceeded the great affection he had to Brutus, …
- Book 2 · Chapter 33 · ¶ 4.
The Story of Spurina Brutus, whence, every one believes, proceeded the great affection he had to Brutus, by reason that he was born at a time when it was …
- Book 2 · Chapter 34 · ¶ 1.
Observations on Julius Caesar’s Methods of Waging War books in particular esteem, as Alexander the Great, Homer; Scipio Africanus, Xenophon; Marcus Brutus, Polybius; Charles V, Philippe de Commines; and ’tis said that, in our …
- Book 3 · Chapter 9 · ¶ 220.
On Vanity had a hundred quarrels in defending Pompey and for the cause of Brutus; this acquaintance yet continues betwixt us; we have no other hold even …
- Book 3 · Chapter 13 · ¶ 146.
On Experience at dinner, to talk and be merry with his friends; to see Brutus, when heaven and earth were conspired against him and the Roman liberty, …