Note on the Translation Explanation of the Symbols
Book I 1. We reach the same end by discrepant means
3. Our emotions get carried away beyond us 4. How the soul discharges its emotions 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 the intention
10. On a ready or hesitant delivery 11. On prognostications
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 good reason 16. On punishing cowardice
17. The doings of certain ambassadors
19. That we should not be deemed happy till 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: and on never easily changing a traditional law
24. Same design: differing outcomes
25. On schoolmasters' learning
26. On educating children
27. That it is madness to judge the true and the false from our own capacities 28. On affectionate relationships 29. Nine and twenty sonnets of Estienne de La Boëtie
32. Judgements 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 administrations 36. On the custom of wearing clothing
38. How we weep and laugh at the same thing
40. Reflections upon Cicero
41. On not sharing one's fame 42. On the inequality there is between us 43. On sumptuary laws 44. On sleep 45. On the Battle of Dreux
47. On the uncertainty of our judgement
50. On Democritus and Heraclitus
51. On the vanity of words
52. On the frugality of the Ancients 53. On one of Caesar's sayings
54. On vain cunning devices 55. On smells
57. On the length of life
Book II 1. On the inconstancy of our actions 2. On drunkenness 3. A custom of the Isle of Cea 4. "Work can wait till tomorrow"
8. On the affection of fathers for their children 9. On the armour of the Parthians
12. An apology for Raymond Sebond 13. On judging someone else's death
14. How our mind tangles itself up
15. That difficulty increases desire
17. On presumption 18. On giving the lie 19. On freedom of conscience 20. We can savour nothing pure 21. Against indolence 22. On riding "in post"
23. On bad means to a good end
24. On the greatness of Rome 25. On not pretending to be ill
27. On cowardice, the mother of cruelty 28. There is a season for everything
32. In defence of Seneca and Plutarch
34. Observations on Julius Caesar's methods of waging war
35. On three good wives 36. On the most excellent of men 37. On the resemblance of children to their fathers Book III 1. On the useful and the honourable
3. On three kinds of social intercourse 4. On diversion 5. On some lines of Virgil
6. On coaches 7. On high rank as a disadvantage 8. On the art of conversation 9. On vanity 10. On restraining your will 11. On the lame 12. On physiognomy 13. On experience
