Cicero
In the Essays of Michel de Montaigne
There are 69 instances of Cicero in 27 chapters.
Normalized frequency of Cicero in the Essays
- Book 1 · Chapter 11 · ¶ 1.
On Prognostications their credibility well before the coming of Jesus Christ for we see Cicero going to great lengths to find the cause of their failing. These …
- Book 1 · Chapter 11 · ¶ 12.
On Prognostications no paintings for those who, in far greater numbers, drowned and died.”❦ Cicero says that only Xenophanes of Colophon, among all the philosophers who recognized …
- Book 1 · Chapter 19 · ¶ 1.
To Philosophize Is to Learn to Die Cicero says that to philosophize is nothing more than to prepare for death.∗ …
- Book 1 · Chapter 24 · ¶ 16.
On Pedantry We can say, Cicero says thus; these were the manners of Plato; these are the very words …
- Book 1 · Chapter 24 · ¶ 18.
On Pedantry I extract consolation for myself or my friend, I borrow it from Cicero. I might have found it in myself, had I been trained to …
- Book 1 · Chapter 25 · ¶ 28.
On the Education of Children of grammar and rhetoric, or of such and such a sentence of Cicero? Our masters stick them, full feathered, in our memories, and there establish …
- Book 1 · Chapter 25 · ¶ 69.
On the Education of Children the pox before they have come to read Aristotle’s lecture on temperance. Cicero said, that though he should live two men’s ages, he should never …
- Book 1 · Chapter 25 · ¶ 100.
On the Education of Children When Cicero was in the height and heat of an eloquent harangue, many were …
- Book 1 · Chapter 25 · ¶ 106.
On the Education of Children If these ridiculous subtleties, contorta et aculeata sophismata,convoluted and thorny sophistry,❦ as Cicero calls them, are designed to possess him with an untruth, they are …
- Book 1 · Chapter 38 · ¶ 46.
On Solitude be entirely and absolutely thine own.” By which he means reputation; like Cicero, who says, that he would employ his solitude and retirement from public …
- Book 1 · Chapter 38 · ¶ 55.
On Solitude Now, as to the end that Pliny and Cicero propose to us, of glory; ’tis infinitely wide of my account. Ambition …
- Book 1 · Chapter 39 · ¶ 1.
A Consideration on Cicero these two. There are to be gathered out of the writings of Cicero and the younger Pliny (but little, in my opinion, resembling his uncle in …
- Book 1 · Chapter 39 · ¶ 12.
A Consideration on Cicero itself, and not with actual things! unless you will allow that of Cicero to be of so supreme a perfection as to form a complete …
- Book 1 · Chapter 40 · ¶ 15.
The Taste of Good and Bad Things Depends Mostly on the Opinion We Have of Them alive rather than renounce their belief. Quoties non modo ductores nostri, says Cicero, Sed uniuersi etiam exercitus ad non dubiam mortem concurrerunt.How often have not …
- Book 1 · Chapter 40 · ¶ 37.
The Taste of Good and Bad Things Depends Mostly on the Opinion We Have of Them death when their character was being tested as part of their education. Cicero saw them fighting together, punching, kicking, biting, and passing out rather than …
- Book 1 · Chapter 41 · ¶ 4.
On Not Sharing One’s Fame For, as Cicero says, even those who most controvert it, would yet that the books …
- Book 1 · Chapter 50 · ¶ 2.
On Democritus and Heraclitus us, the soul forms them as she pleases. Death is terrible to Cicero, coveted by Cato, indifferent to Socrates. Health, conscience, authority, knowledge, riches, beauty, …
- Book 2 · Chapter 1 · ¶ 26.
On the Inconsistency of Our Actions Many of the Greeks, says Cicero, cannot endure the sight of an enemy, and yet are courageous in …
- Book 2 · Chapter 6 · ¶ 40.
On Practice vainglory for a man to publish his own virtues, why does not Cicero prefer the eloquence of Hortensius, and Hortensius that of Cicero? Peradventure they …
- Book 2 · Chapter 9 · ¶ 13.
On the Armor of the Parthians a morion, a sword, and a shield (for as to arms, says Cicero, they were so accustomed to have them always on, that they were …
- Book 2 · Chapter 10 · ¶ 23.
On Books As to Cicero, his works that are most useful to my design are they that …
- Book 2 · Chapter 10 · ¶ 28.
On Books As to Cicero, I am of the common opinion that, learning excepted, he had no …
- Book 2 · Chapter 10 · ¶ 28.
On Books all comparison, and I believe it will never be equalled. The younger Cicero, who resembled his father in nothing but in name, whilst commanding in …
- Book 2 · Chapter 10 · ¶ 28.
On Books end, as men often intrude to the open tables of the great. Cicero asked one of his people who that man was, who presently told him …
- Book 2 · Chapter 10 · ¶ 28.
On Books account of your father’s eloquence in comparison of his own.” At which Cicero, being suddenly nettled, commanded poor Cestius presently to be seized, and caused …
- Book 2 · Chapter 10 · ¶ 30.
On Books of his language, wherein he not only excels all other historians, as Cicero confesses, but, peradventure, even Cicero himself; speaking of his enemies with so …
- Book 2 · Chapter 10 · ¶ 30.
On Books not only excels all other historians, as Cicero confesses, but, peradventure, even Cicero himself; speaking of his enemies with so much sincerity in his judgment, …
- Book 2 · Chapter 12 · ¶ 188.
Apology for Raymond Sebond And what qualities of our bodily constitution, in Plato and Cicero, may not indifferently serve a thousand sorts of beasts? …
- Book 2 · Chapter 12 · ¶ 213.
Apology for Raymond Sebond in dream. Hear this poor calamitous animal huff! “There is nothing,” says Cicero, “so charming as the employment of letters; of letters, I say, by …
- Book 2 · Chapter 12 · ¶ 251.
Apology for Raymond Sebond Gascon, who naturally changes the b into v, than on that of Cicero: …
- Book 2 · Chapter 12 · ¶ 266.
Apology for Raymond Sebond when found out, to reveal him to the vulgar is sin,❦ says Cicero. …
- Book 2 · Chapter 12 · ¶ 274.
Apology for Raymond Sebond ’Tis what Velleius reproaches Cotta withal and Cicero, that they had learned of Philo, that they had learned nothing. …
- Book 2 · Chapter 12 · ¶ 278.
Apology for Raymond Sebond And of Cicero himself, who stood indebted to his learning for all he was worth, …
- Book 2 · Chapter 12 · ¶ 298.
Apology for Raymond Sebond Hear Cicero’s protestation, who expounds to us another’s fancy by his own: Qui requirunt …
- Book 2 · Chapter 12 · ¶ 301.
Apology for Raymond Sebond Cicero reprehends some of his friends for giving more of their time to …
- Book 2 · Chapter 12 · ¶ 338.
Apology for Raymond Sebond much desired to equal himself to God, he had done better, says Cicero, to have attracted those divine conditions to himself, and drawn them down …
- Book 2 · Chapter 12 · ¶ 446.
Apology for Raymond Sebond to gaze at heaven; for, as Democritus says, by the mouth of Cicero, …
- Book 2 · Chapter 12 · ¶ 466.
Apology for Raymond Sebond aliquis viderit,Of these opinions which is the true, let some god determine,❦says Cicero. “I know by myself,” says St Bernard, “how incomprehensible God is, seeing …
- Book 2 · Chapter 12 · ¶ 471.
Apology for Raymond Sebond or what part it inhabits, is not to be inquired into,❦ says Cicero. I very willingly deliver this author to you in his own words; …
- Book 2 · Chapter 12 · ¶ 520.
Apology for Raymond Sebond For the contrary opinion of the immortality of the soul, which, Cicero says, was first introduced, according to the testimony of books at least, …
- Book 2 · Chapter 12 · ¶ 563.
Apology for Raymond Sebond heaven, will cause some mutation in us, according to these verses in Cicero, …
- Book 2 · Chapter 12 · ¶ 591.
Apology for Raymond Sebond one another; that the beginning of the world is undetermined; Aristotle and Cicero both say the same; and some among us are of opinion that …
- Book 2 · Chapter 12 · ¶ 591.
Apology for Raymond Sebond to be infinite, and comprising the birth and progress of other countries. Cicero and Diodorus say that in their time the Chaldees kept a register …
- Book 2 · Chapter 12 · ¶ 655.
Apology for Raymond Sebond is by their means and mediation that all our instruction is directed. Cicero says, that Chrysippus having attempted to extenuate the force and virtue of …
- Book 2 · Chapter 13 · ¶ 26.
On Judging of the Death of Another That Pomponius Atticus, to whom Cicero writes so often, being sick, caused Agrippa, his son-in-law, and two or …
- Book 2 · Chapter 16 · ¶ 14.
On Glory seeking or evading it. I believe that, if we had the books Cicero wrote upon this subject, we should there find pretty stories; for he …
- Book 2 · Chapter 16 · ¶ 18.
On Glory in our days to recall the example of P. Sextilius Rufus, whom Cicero accuses to have entered upon an inheritance contrary to his conscience, not …
- Book 2 · Chapter 17 · ¶ 6.
On Presumption which is the fashion of a man full of troublesome thoughts; and Cicero, as I remember, was wont to pucker up his nose, a sign …
- Book 2 · Chapter 17 · ¶ 21.
On Presumption I am apt of everything to say the extremest that I know. Cicero is of opinion that in treatises of philosophy the exordium is the …
- Book 2 · Chapter 17 · ¶ 85.
On Presumption or received, and to forget where I had hidden my purse; whatever Cicero is pleased to say, I help myself to lose what I have …
- Book 2 · Chapter 17 · ¶ 118.
On Presumption at the expense of their understandings, and making themselves ridiculous by honoring Cicero, Galen, Ulpian, and St. Jerome alike. …
- Book 2 · Chapter 24 · ¶ 1.
On Roman Greatness of these times with that of Rome. In the seventh book of Cicero’s Familiar Epistles (and let the grammarians put out that surname of familiar …
- Book 2 · Chapter 24 · ¶ 1.
On Roman Greatness ad Familiares) there is one directed to Caesar, then in Gaul, wherein Cicero repeats these words, which were in the end of another letter that …
- Book 2 · Chapter 31 · ¶ 12.
On Anger he thinks, strikes much more home than he who only feigns. Hear Cicero speak of the love of liberty: hear Brutus speak of it, the …
- Book 2 · Chapter 31 · ¶ 12.
On Anger if he would purchase it at the price of his life. Let Cicero, the father of eloquence, treat of the contempt of death; let Seneca …
- Book 2 · Chapter 32 · ¶ 3.
In Defense of Seneca and Plutarch to maintain Julius Caesar’s cause against Pompey, and that of Antony against Cicero. …
- Book 2 · Chapter 32 · ¶ 6.
In Defense of Seneca and Plutarch in his time, more unlikely to prevail upon our faith; as what Cicero has also testified before him, as having, as he says, been upon …
- Book 2 · Chapter 32 · ¶ 15.
In Defense of Seneca and Plutarch among themselves, but not Romans with Greeks; witness, says he, Demosthenes and Cicero, Cato and Aristides, Sylla and Lysander, Marcellus and Pelopidas, Pompey and Agesilaus, …
- Book 2 · Chapter 32 · ¶ 16.
In Defense of Seneca and Plutarch natures, and parts, than their fortunes, I think, contrary to Bodin, that Cicero and the elder Cato come far short of the men with whom …
- Book 2 · Chapter 33 · ¶ 7.
The Story of Spurina great an orator that many have preferred his eloquence to that of Cicero, and he, I conceive, did not think himself inferior to him in …
- Book 2 · Chapter 33 · ¶ 7.
The Story of Spurina his two works against Cato were written to counterbalance the elocution that Cicero had expended in his Cato. …
- Book 2 · Chapter 37 · ¶ 15.
On the Resemblance of Children to Their Fathers what pity ’tis I have not the faculty of that dreamer in Cicero, who dreaming he was lying with a wench, found he had discharged …
- Book 3 · Chapter 4 · ¶ 4.
On Diversion of all these together, to make use of upon occasion, according to Cicero; but, gently bending my discourse, and by little and little digressing, sometimes …
- Book 3 · Chapter 7 · ¶ 4.
On the Inconvenience of High Status other exemplary and glorious to a wonder. I should doubtless say, as Cicero did, could I speak as well as he. But if I was …
- Book 3 · Chapter 9 · ¶ 162.
On Vanity philosopher, compelled by reason, when he dared say this verse, translated by Cicero: …
- Book 3 · Chapter 9 · ¶ 211.
On Vanity by some mark only, as these others, Andria, Eunuchus; or these, Sylla, Cicero, Torquatus. I love a poetic progress, by leaps and skips; ’tis an …
- Book 3 · Chapter 12 · ¶ 8.
On Physiognomy a philosopher. Should I have died less cheerfully before I had read Cicero’s Tusculans? I believe not; and when I find myself at the best, …
- Book 3 · Chapter 13 · ¶ 30.
On Experience I had rather understand myself well in myself, than in Cicero. Of the experience I have of myself, I find enough to make …
- Book 3 · Chapter 13 · ¶ 98.
On Experience By suchlike arguments, weak and strong, as Cicero with the disease of his old age, I try to rock asleep …