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The Essays of Montaigne [599]

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They buy a cat in a sack

They can neither lend nor give anything to one another

They do not see my heart, they see but my countenance

They err as much who too much forbear Venus

They gently name them, so they patiently endure them (diseases)

They have heard, they have seen, they have done so and so

They have not one more invention left wherewith to amuse us

They have not the courage to suffer themselves to be corrected

They have yet touched nothing of that which is mine

They juggle and trifle in all their discourses at our expense

They must be very hard to please, if they are not contented

They must become insensible and invisible to satisfy us

They neither instruct us to think well nor to do well

They never loved them till dead

They who would fight custom with grammar are triflers

Thing at which we all aim, even in virtue is pleasure

Things grow familiar to men's minds by being often seen

Things I say are better than those I write

Things often appear greater to us at distance than near at hand

Things seem greater by imagination than they are in effect

Things that engage us elsewhere and separate us from ourselves

Think myself no longer worth my own care

Think of physic as much good or ill as any one would have me

Thinking nothing done, if anything remained to be done

Thinks nothing profitable that is not painful

This decay of nature which renders him useless, burdensome

This plodding occupation of bookes is as painfull as any other

Those immodest and debauched tricks and postures

Those oppressed with sorrow sometimes surprised by a smile

Those which we fear the least are, peradventure, most to be fear

Those who can please and hug themselves in what they do

Those within (marriage) despair of getting out

Thou diest because thou art living

Thou wilt not feel it long if thou feelest it too much

Though I be engaged to one forme, I do not tie the world unto it

Though nobody should read me, have I wasted time

Threats of the day of judgment

Thucydides: which was the better wrestler

Thy own cowardice is the cause, if thou livest in pain

Tis all swine's flesh, varied by sauces

Tis an exact life that maintains itself in due order in private

Tis better to lean towards doubt than assurance—Augustine

Tis evil counsel that will admit no change

Tis far beyond not fearing death to taste and relish it

Tis for youth to subject itself to common opinions

Tis impossible to deal fairly with a fool

Tis in some sort a kind of dying to avoid the pain of living well

Tis more laudable to obey the bad than the good

Tis no matter; it may be of use to some others

Tis not the cause, but their interest, that inflames them

Tis not the number of men, but the number of good men

Tis said of Epimenides, that he always prophesied backward

Tis so I melt and steal away from myself

Tis the sharpnss of our mind that gives the edge to our pains

Tis then no longer correction, but revenge

Tis there she talks plain French

Titillation of ill-natured pleasure in seeing others suffer

Title of barbarism to everything that is not familiar

Titles being so dearly bought

Titles of my chapters do not always comprehend the whole matter

To be a slave, incessantly to be led by the nose by one's self

To be, not to seem

To condemn them as impossible, is by a temerarious presumption

To contemn what we do not comprehend

To die of old age is a death rare, extraordinary, and singular

To do well where there was danger was the proper office

To forbear doing is often as generous as to do

To forbid us anything is to make us have a mind to't

To fret and vex at folly, as I do, is folly itself

To give a currency to his little pittance of learning

To go a mile out of their way to hook in a fine word

To keep me from dying is not in your power

To kill men, a clear and strong light is required

To know by rote, is no knowledge

To make little things appear great was his profession

To make their private advantage at the public expense

To smell, though well, is to stink

To study philosophy is nothing but to prepare

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