title: The Complete Essays of Montaigne
author: Michel de Montaigne
description: In his Essays Montaigne warns us from the outset that he has set himself 'no goal but a domestic and private one' yet he is one author whose modernity and universality have been acclaimed by each age since he wrote. Probing into his emotions, attitudes, and behavior, Montaigne reveals to us much about ourselves.
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  Title: The Essays of Montaigne, Volume 18
  
  
  Author: Michel de Montaigne
  
  
  Release Date: November 1, 2004 [EBook #3598]
  
  
  Language: English
  
  
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  START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE ESSAYS OF MONTAIGNE, VOLUME 18
  
  
  
  
  
  Produced by David Widger
  
  
  ESSAYS OF MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE
  
  
  Translated by Charles Cotton
  
  
  Edited by William Carew Hazilitt
  
  
  1877
  
  
  CONTENTS OF VOLUME 18.
  
  
  X. Of Managing the Will. XI. Of Cripples. XII. Of Physiognomy.
  
  
  CHAPTER X
  
  
  OF MANAGING THE WILL
  
  
  Few things, in comparison of what commonly affect other men, move, or, to say
  better, possess me: for 'tis but reason th