Essay Table of Contents

1. We Reach The Same Ends By Discrepant Means

2. On Sadness

3. Our Emotions Get Carried Away Beyond Us

4. How the Soul Discharges Itself Against False Objects When Lacking Real Ones

5. Whether the Governor of a Besieged Fortress Should Go Out and Parley

6. The Hour of Parleying is Dangerous

7. That Our Deeds are Judged by Intention

8. On Idleness

9. On Liars

10. On a Ready or Hesitant Delivery

11. On Prognostications

12. On Constancy

13. Ceremonial at the Meeting of Kings

14. That the Taste of Good and Evil Things Depends in Large Part on the Opinion We Have of Them

15: One is Punished for Stubbornly Defending a Fort without a Good Reason

16. On Cowardice

17. The Doings of Certain Ambassadors

18. On Fear

19. That We Should Not Be Deemed Happy Until After Our Death

20. To Philosophize is to Learn How to Die

21. On the Power of the Imagination

22. One Man’s Profit Is Another Man’s Loss

23. On Habit

24. Same Design, Differing Outcomes

25. On Schoolmasters’ Learning

26. On the Education of Children

27. That it is Madness to Judge the True and the False from Our Own Capacities

28. On Affectionate Relationships

Montaigne, La Boetie and Servitude: The Complicated Friendship

29. de La Boétie’s Treatise on Involuntary Servitude

30. On Moderation

31. The Cannibals (and 100. The Coaches)

32. Judgments on God’s Ordinances Must Be Embarked Upon with Prudence

33. On Fleeing from Pleasures at the Cost of One’s Life

34. Fortune Is Often Found in Reason’s Train

35. Something Lacking in Our Civil Administration

36. On the Custom of Wearing Clothing

37. Cato the Younger

38. How We Weep and Laugh at the Same Time

39. On Solitude

40. On Cicero

41. On Not Sharing One’s Fame

42. On the Inequality between Us

43. On Sumptuary Laws

44. On Sleep

45. On the Battle of Dreaux

46. On Names

47. On the Uncertainty of Our Judgment

48. On Warhorses

49. On Ancient Customs

50. On Democritus and Heraclitus

51. On the Vanity of Words

52. On the Frugality of the Ancients

53. One of Caesar’s Sayings

54. On Vain Cunning Devices

55. On Smells

56. On Prayer

57. On the Length of Life

58. On the Inconstancy of our Actions

59. On Drunkenness

60. A Custom of the isle of Cea

61. Work Can Wait Till Tomorrow

62. On Conscience

63. On Practice

63. On Practice (Alternate Take)

64. On Rewards for Honor

65. On Affection of Fathers for their Children

66. On Armor of the Parthians

67. On Books

68. On Cruelty

69. An Apology for Raymond Sebond

70. On Judging Someone Else’s Death

71. How Our Mind Tangles Itself Up

72. That Difficulty Increases Desire

73. On Glory

74. On Presumption

75. On Giving the Lie

76. On Freedom of Conscience

77. We Can Savor Nothing Pure

78. Against Indolence

79. On Riding “In Post”

80. On Bad Means to a Good End

81. On the Greatness of Rome

82. On Pretending to be Ill

83. On Thumbs

84. On Cowardice, The Mother of All Cruelty

85. There is a Season for Everything

86. On Virtue

87. On a Monster-Child

88. On Anger

89. In Defense of Seneca and Plutarch

90. The Tale of Spurina

91. Observations on Julius Caesar’s Methods of Waging War

92. On Three Good Wives

93. On the Most Excellent of Men

94. On the Resemblance of Children

95. On the Useful and the Honorable

96. On Repenting

97. On Three Kinds of Social Intercourse

98. On Diversion

99. On Some Lines of Virgil

101. On High Rank as a Disadvantage

102. On the Art of Conversation

103. On Vanity

104. On Restraining Your Will

105. On the Lame

106. On Physiognomy

107. On Experience (2024)

107. On Experience (2020)

107. On Experience (2011)

107. On Experience, An Act of Memory

107. “On Experience” and Meaning