Introduction to Michel de Montaigne ........................ 001

I. OF CUSTOM, AND THAT WE SHOULD NOT

EASILY CHANGE A LAW RECEIVED ..........................018

II. OF THE EDUCATION OF CHILDREN ...................... 041

III. THAT FORTUNE IS OFTENTIMES OBSERVED

TO ACT BY THE RULES OF REASON ..........................090

IV. OF CANNIBALS ...............................................................094

V. OF WAR-HORSES, OR DESTRIERS ...............................112

VI. OF DEMOCRITUS AND HERACLITUS ......................123

VII. OF AGE .............................................................................. 128

VIII. OF DRUNKENNESS ......................................................132

IX. OF GLORY..........................................................................144

X. OF PRESUMPTION............................................................ 162

XI. THAT WE TASTE NOTHING PURE ..........................203

XII. OF THUMBS .....................................................................207

XIII. OF THE RESEMBLANCE OF CHILDREN TO

THEIR FATHERS................................................................ 209

XIV. OF REPENTANCE.........................................................247

XV. UPON SOME VERSES OF VIRGIL.............................. 265