The Essays of Montaigne/Book I

Book I

 * The Author to the Reader [[Image:75%.svg]]
 * Chapter I. That men by various ways arrive at the same end. [[Image:75%.svg]]
 * Chapter II. Of Sorrow. [[Image:75%.svg]]
 * Chapter III. That our affections carry themselves beyond us. [[Image:75%.svg]]
 * Chapter IV. That the soul discharges her passions upon false objects, where the true are wanting. [[Image:75%.svg]]
 * Chapter V. Whether the governor of a place besieged ought himself to go out to parley. [[Image:75%.svg]]
 * Chapter VI. That the hour of parley is dangerous. [[Image:75%.svg]]
 * Chapter VII. That the intention is judge of our actions. [[Image:75%.svg]]
 * Chapter VIII. Of idleness. [[Image:75%.svg]]
 * Chapter IX. Of liars. [[Image:75%.svg]]
 * Chapter X. Of quick or slow speech. [[Image:75%.svg]]
 * Chapter XI. Of prognostications. [[Image:75%.svg]]
 * Chapter XII. Of constancy. [[Image:75%.svg]]
 * Chapter XIII. The ceremony of the interview of princes. [[Image:75%.svg]]
 * Chapter XIV. That men are justly punished for being obstinate in the defence of a fort that is not in reason to be defended. [[Image:75%.svg]]
 * Chapter XV. Of the punishment of cowardice. [[Image:75%.svg]]
 * Chapter XVI. A proceeding of some ambassadors. [[Image:75%.svg]]
 * Chapter XVII. Of fear. [[Image:75%.svg]]
 * Chapter XVIII. That men are not to judge of our happiness till after death. [[Image:75%.svg]]
 * Chapter XIX. That to study philosophy is to learn to die. [[Image:75%.svg]]
 * Chapter XX. Of the force of imagination. [[Image:75%.svg]]
 * Chapter XXI. That the profit of one man is the damage of another. [[Image:75%.svg]]
 * Chapter XXII. Of custom, and that we should not easily change a law received. [[Image:75%.svg]]
 * Chapter XXIII. Various events from the same counsel. [[Image:75%.svg]]
 * Chapter XXIV. Of pedantry. [[Image:75%.svg]]
 * Chapter XXV. Of the education of children. [[Image:75%.svg]]
 * Chapter XXVI. That it is folly to measure truth and error by our own capacity. [[Image:75%.svg]]
 * Chapter XXVII. Of friendship. [[Image:75%.svg]]
 * Chapter XXVIII. Nine-and-twenty sonnets of Estienne de la Boetie. [[Image:75%.svg]]
 * Chapter XXIX. Of moderation. [[Image:75%.svg]]
 * Chapter XXX. Of cannibals. [[Image:75%.svg]]
 * Chapter XXXI. That a man is soberly to judge of the divine ordinances. [[Image:75%.svg]]
 * Chapter XXXII. That we are to avoid pleasures, even at the expense of life. [[Image:75%.svg]]
 * Chapter XXXIII. That fortune is oftentimes observed to act by the rule of reason. [[Image:75%.svg]]
 * Chapter XXXIV. Of one defect in our government. [[Image:75%.svg]]
 * Chapter XXXV. Of the custom of wearing clothes. [[Image:75%.svg]]
 * Chapter XXXVI. Of Cato the Younger. [[Image:75%.svg]]
 * Chapter XXXVII. That we laugh and cry for the same thing. [[Image:75%.svg]]
 * Chapter XXXVIII. Of solitude. [[Image:75%.svg]]
 * Chapter XXXIX. A consideration upon Cicero. [[Image:75%.svg]]
 * Chapter XL. That the relish of good and evil depends in a great measure upon the opinion we have of them. [[Image:75%.svg]]
 * Chapter XLI. Not to communicate a man's honour. [[Image:75%.svg]]
 * Chapter XLII. Of the inequality amongst us. [[Image:75%.svg]]
 * Chapter XLIII. Of sumptuary laws. [[Image:75%.svg]]
 * Chapter XLIV. Of sleep. [[Image:75%.svg]]
 * Chapter XLV. Of the battle of Dreux. [[Image:75%.svg]]
 * Chapter XLVI. Of names. [[Image:75%.svg]]
 * Chapter XLVII. Of the uncertainty of our judgment. [[Image:75%.svg]]
 * Chapter XLVIII. Of war-horses, or destriers. [[Image:75%.svg]]
 * Chapter XLIX. Of ancient customs. [[Image:75%.svg]]
 * Chapter L. Of Democritus and Heraclitus. [[Image:75%.svg]]
 * Chapter LI. Of the vanity of words. [[Image:75%.svg]]
 * Chapter LII. Of the parsimony of the Ancients. [[Image:75%.svg]]
 * Chapter LIII. Of a saying of Caesar. [[Image:75%.svg]]
 * Chapter LIV. Of vain subtleties. [[Image:75%.svg]]
 * Chapter LV. Of smells. [[Image:75%.svg]]
 * Chapter LVI. Of prayers. [[Image:75%.svg]]
 * Chapter LVII. Of age. [[Image:75%.svg]]

Essais/Livre I