The essays: a selection

We reach the same end by discrepant means --

On idleness --

On punishing cowardice --

On fear --

To philosophize is to learn how to die --

On educating children --

That it is madness to judge the true and the false from our own capacities --

On the cannibals --

Judgements on God's ordinances must be embarked upon with prudence --

On solitude --

On prayer --

On the length of life --

On the inconstancy of our actions --

On drunkenness --

On conscience --

On the affection of fathers for their children --

On cruelty --

In defence of Seneca and Plutarch --

On three good wives --

On the resemblance of children to their fathers --

On repenting --

On three kinds of social intercourse --

On some lines of Virgil --

On coaches --

On the lame --

On experience.