Pythagoras
In the Essays of Michel de Montaigne
There are 23 instances of Pythagoras in nine chapters.
Normalized frequency of Pythagoras in the Essays
- Book 1 · Chapter 20 · ¶ 21.
On the Power of Imagination or distant attitudes that turn us off when they turn us on. Pythagoras’s daughter-in-law used to say that a woman who goes to bed with …
- Book 1 · Chapter 25 · ¶ 48.
On the Education of Children And so of all the rest. Pythagoras was wont to say, that our life resembles the great and populous …
- Book 1 · Chapter 25 · ¶ 61.
On the Education of Children Anaximenes writing to Pythagoras, “To what purpose,” said he, “should I trouble myself in searching out …
- Book 1 · Chapter 46 · ¶ 9.
On Names into the soul; this that follows, insinuated itself merely by the senses. Pythagoras being in company with some wild young fellows, and perceiving that, heated …
- Book 2 · Chapter 11 · ¶ 46.
On Cruelty take a beast alive that I do not presently turn out again. Pythagoras bought them of fishermen and fowlers to do the same: …
- Book 2 · Chapter 11 · ¶ 50.
On Cruelty it has reason to enjoin us some affection and regard to them. Pythagoras borrowed the metempsychosis from the Egyptians; but it has since been received …
- Book 2 · Chapter 12 · ¶ 316.
Apology for Raymond Sebond I cannot easily persuade myself that Epicurus, Plato, and Pythagoras, have given us their atom, idea and numbers, for current pay. They …
- Book 2 · Chapter 12 · ¶ 326.
Apology for Raymond Sebond Pythagoras shadowed the truth a little more closely, judging that the knowledge of …
- Book 2 · Chapter 12 · ¶ 330.
Apology for Raymond Sebond gave divinity to the sun, moon, and stars, and to the soul. Pythagoras made God a spirit, spread over the nature of all things, whence …
- Book 2 · Chapter 12 · ¶ 346.
Apology for Raymond Sebond “For in Pythagoras’s metempsychosis, and the change of habitation that he imagined in souls, can …
- Book 2 · Chapter 12 · ¶ 394.
Apology for Raymond Sebond name of a Christian shall ever do again)! and Thales, Plato, and Pythagoras have enslaved him to necessity. This arrogance of attempting to discover God …
- Book 2 · Chapter 12 · ¶ 452.
Apology for Raymond Sebond Anaximander, or the air of Diogenes, or the numbers and symmetry of Pythagoras, or the infinity of Parmenides, or the One of Musaeus, or the …
- Book 2 · Chapter 12 · ¶ 453.
Apology for Raymond Sebond this practice and negotiation of science we have taken the saying of Pythagoras, “That every expert person ought to be believed in his own art” …
- Book 2 · Chapter 12 · ¶ 526.
Apology for Raymond Sebond to our times in various places, is that of which they make Pythagoras the author; not that he was the original inventor, but because it …
- Book 2 · Chapter 12 · ¶ 527.
Apology for Raymond Sebond since that Euphorbus, afterward Hermotimus, and, finally, from Pyrrhus was passed into Pythagoras; having a memory of himself of two hundred and six years. And …
- Book 2 · Chapter 12 · ¶ 536.
Apology for Raymond Sebond Pythagoras says that our seed is the foam or cream of our better …
- Book 2 · Chapter 12 · ¶ 611.
Apology for Raymond Sebond this fancy seems to have some relation to that of the ancient Pythagoras. …
- Book 2 · Chapter 12 · ¶ 715.
Apology for Raymond Sebond to have motion, on the power whereof he sets a mighty value. Pythagoras was of opinion that all matter was flowing and unstable; the Stoics, …
- Book 3 · Chapter 1 · ¶ 23.
On the Useful and the Honorable of it;❦ insomuch that the sage Dandamis, hearing the lives of Socrates, Pythagoras, and Diogenes read, judged them to be great men every way, excepting …
- Book 3 · Chapter 5 · ¶ 182.
On Some Verses of Virgil the same interjection at this time in use among the Italians, Cappari! Pythagoras swore By water and air. …
- Book 3 · Chapter 9 · ¶ 2.
On Vanity a horrible load of volumes? So many words for words only. O Pythagoras, why didst not thou allay this tempest? …
- Book 3 · Chapter 13 · ¶ 115.
On Experience forasmuch as it is, peradventure, the reason why they never dream, for Pythagoras ordered a certain preparation of diet to beget appropriate dreams. Mine are …
- Book 3 · Chapter 13 · ¶ 143.
On Experience the soul, as if we had no body; both of them faultily. Pythagoras, they say, followed a philosophy that was all contemplation; Socrates one that …