The complete works: essays, travel journal, letters

By diverse means we arrive at the same end

Of sadness

Our feelings reach out beyond us

How the soul discharges its passions on false objects when the true are wanting

Whether the governor of a besieged place should go out to parley

Parley time is dangerous

That intention is judge of our actions

Of idleness

Of liars

Of prompt or slow speech

Of prognostications

Of constancy

Ceremony of interviews between kings

That the taste of good and evil depends in large part on the opinion we have of them

One is punished for defending a place obstinately without reason

Of the punishment of cowardice

Trait of certain ambassadors

Of fear

That our happiness must not be judged until after our death

That to philosophize is to learn to die

Of the power of the imagination

One man's profit is another man's harm

Of custom, and not easily changing an accepted law

Various outcomes of the same plan

Of pedantry

Of the education of children

It is folly to measure the true and false by our own capacity

Of friendship

Twenty-nine sonnets of Etienne de La Boetie

Of moderation

Of cannibals

We would meddle soberly with judging divine ordinances

To flee from sensual pleasures at the price of life

Fortune is often met in the path of reason

Of a lack in our administrations

Of the custom of wearing clothes

Of Cato the Younger

How we cry and laugh for the same thing

Of solitude

Consideration upon Cicero

Of not communicating one's glory

Of the inequality that is between us

Of sumptuary laws

Of sleep

Of the battle of Dreux

Of names

Of the uncertainty of our judgment

Of war horses

Of ancient customs

Of Democritus and Heraclitus

Of the vanity of words

Of the parsimony of the ancients

Of a saying of Caesar's

Of vain subtleties

Of smells

Of prayers

Of age.

Of the inconsistency of our actions

Of drunkenness

Custom of the island of Cea

Let business wait till tomorrow

Of conscience

Of practice

Of honorary awards

Of the affection of fathers for their children

Of the arms of the Parthians

Of books

Of cruelty

Apology for Raymond Sebond

Sebond and his book

First objection to Sebond: Defense

First objection to Sebond:

Second objection to Sebond: Objectors

Second objection to Sebond: Defense

Counterattack: Vanity of man and of man's knowledge with God

Man is not better than animals

Man's knowledge cannot make him happy

Man's knowledge cannot make him good

Man has no knowledge

Warning to the princess

Man can have no knowledge

Senses are inadequate

Changing man cannot know changing things

Changing man cannot know unchanging God

Man is nothing without God

Of judging of the death of others

How our mind hinders itself

That our desire is increased by difficulty

Of glory

Of presumption

Of giving the lie

Of freedom of conscience

We taste nothing pure

Against do-nothingness

Of riding post

Of evil means employed to a good end

Of the greatness of Rome

Not to counterfeit being sick

Of thumbs

Cowardice, mother of cruelty

All things have their season

Of virtue

Of a monstrous child

Of anger

Defense of Seneca and Plutarch

Story of Spurina

Observations on Julius Caesar's methods of making war

Of three good women

Of the most outstanding men

Of the resemblance of children to fathers.

Of the useful and the honorable

Of repentance

Of three kinds of association

Of diversion

On some verses of Virgil

Of coaches

Of the disadvantage of greatness

Of the art of discussion

Of vanity

Of husbanding your will

Of cripples

Of physiognomy

Of experience.

Travel Journal. Note on the travel journal

Analytical table of the trip

Table of money values

Across France toward Switzerland

Switzerland

Germany, Austria, and the Alps

Italy: Road to Rome

Italy: Rome

Italy: From Rome to Loreto and La Villa

Italy: First stay at La Villa

Italy: Florence-Pisa-Lucca

Italy: Second stay at La Villa

Italy: Return to Rome

Italy and France: the return home.

Letters. Note onthe letters

To Antoine Duprat

To his father: On the death of La Boetie

To his father: Dedication of Montaigne's translation of Sebond

To Henri de Mesmes: Dedicatory epistle to La Boetie's translation of Plutarch's 'rules of marriage'

To Michel de L'Hopital: Dedicatory epistle to La Boetie's Latin 'poems'

Notice to the reader of La Boetie's translations

To Louis de Lansac: Dedicatory epistle to La Boetie's translation of Xenophon's 'oeconomicus'

To Paul de Foix: Dedicatory epistle to La Boetie's 'French verses'

To his wife: Dedicatory epistle to La Boetie's translation of Plutarch's 'letter of consolation to his wife'

To the Jurats of Bordeaux

To Marshal de Matignon

To Antoine Duprat

To King Henry III: Letter of remonstrance from the Mayor and Jurats of Bordeaux

To King Henry of Navarre: Letter of remonstrance from the Mayor and Jurats of Bordeaux

To Marshal de Matignon

To Marshal de Matignon

To Claude Dupuy

To Marshal de Matignon

To Marshal de Matignon

To the Jurats of Bordeaux

To Marshal de Matignon

To Marshal de Matignon

To Marshal de Matignon

To the Jurats of Bordeaux

To Marshal de Matignon

To Marshal de Matignon

To Marshal de Matignon

To Marshal de Matignon

To Marshal de Matignon

To Marshal de Matignon

To the Jurats of Bordeaux

To the Jurats of Bordeaux

To Marshal de Matignon

To Marshal de Matignon

To Madame Paulmier

To Antoine Loisel: Inscription on a copy of the 1588 essays

To King Henry IV

To...

To King Henry IV.