CONTENTS
Of Solitude | 11 |
A Consideration upon Cicero | 35 |
That the Taste for Good and Evil Depends in Good Part upon the Opinion We have of Them | 46 |
Not to Communicate One’s Glory | 90 |
Of the Inequality which is between us | 95 |
Of Sumptuary Laws | 115 |
Of Sleeping | 119 |
Of the Battle of Dreux | 124 |
Of Names | 127 |
Of the Uncertainty of our Judgment | 138 |
Of Destriers | 151 |
Of Ancient Customs | 169 |
Of Democritus and Heraclitus | 178 |
Of the Vanity of Words | 185 |
Of the Parsimony of the Ancients | 192 |
Of a Saying of Cæsar | 194 |
Of Vain Subtelties | 196 |
Of Perfumes | 202 |
Of Prayers | 207 |
Of Age | 226 |
Of the Inconstancy of our Actions | 232 |
Of Drunkenness | 246 |