Charles Cotton's 1685 translation (Selected essays in .txt format, CMU)

Book 1 (1580)

• 1. That men by various ways arrive at the same end [not yet available]
• 2. Of sorrow [not yet available]
• 3. That our affections carry themselves beyond us [not yet available]
• 4. That the soul discharges her passions upon false objects, where the true are wanting [not yet available]
• 5. Whether the governor of a place besieg'd ought himself to go out to parley [not yet available]
• 6. That the hour of parley is dangerous [not yet available]
• 7. That the intention is judge of our actions [not yet available]
• 8. Of idleness [not yet available]
• 9. Of lyars [not yet available]
• 10. Of quick or slow speech [not yet available]
• 11. Of prognostications [not yet available]
• 12. Of constancy [not yet available]
• 13. The ceremony of the interview of princes [not yet available]
• 14. That men are justly punish'd for being obstinate in the defence of a fort, that is not in reason to be defended [not yet available]
• 15. Of the punishment of cowardice [not yet available]
• 16. A proceeding of some ambassadors [not yet available]
• 17. Of fear [not yet available]
• 18. That men are not to judge of our happiness till after death
• 19. That to study philosophy, is to learn to die
• 20. Of the force of imagination
• 21. That the profit of one man is the inconvenience of another [not yet available]
• 22. Of custom, and that we should not easily change a law received
• 23. Various events from the same counsel [not yet available]
• 24. Of pedantry
• 25. Of the education of children. To Madam Diana of Foix
• 26. That it is folly to measure truth and errour by our own capacity
• 27. Of friendship
• 28. Sonnets of Estienne de la Boetie to Madam de Grammont [not yet available]
• 29. Of moderation [not yet available]
• 30. Cannibals
• 31. That a man is soberly to judge of divine ordinances [not yet available]
• 32. That we are to avoid pleasures, even at the expence of life [not yet available]
• 33. That fortune is oftentimes observed to act by the rule of reason
• 34. Of one defect in one government [not yet available]
• 35. Of the custom of wearing clothes [not yet available]
• 36. Of Cato the younger [not yet available]
• 37. That we laugh and cry for the same thing [not yet available]
• 38. Of solitude [not yet available]
• 39. A consideration upon Cicero [not yet available]
• 40. The relish of goods and evils depends on the opinion we have
• 41. Not to communicate a man's honour [not yet available]
• 42. Of the inequality amongst us [not yet available]
• 43. Of sumptuary laws [not yet available]
• 44. Of sleep [not yet available]
• 45. Of the battle of Dreux [not yet available]
• 46. Of names [not yet available]
• 47. Of the incertainty of our judgment [not yet available]
• 48. Of horses drest to the menage, call'd destrials
• 49. Of ancient customs [not yet available]
• 50. Of Democritus and Heraclitus
• 51. Of the vanity of words [not yet available]
• 52. Of the parsimony of the ancients [not yet available]
• 53. Of a saying of Caesar [not yet available]
• 54. Of vain subtilties [not yet available]
• 55. Of smells [not yet available]
• 56. Of prayers [not yet available]
• 57. Of age

Book 2 (1580)

• 58. Of the inconstancy of our actions [not yet available]
• 59. Of drunkenness
• 60. The custom of the Isle of Cea [not yet available]
• 61. To morrow's a new day [not yet available]
• 62. Of conscience [not yet available]
• 63. Use makes perfectness [not yet available]
• 64. Of recompences of honour [not yet available]
• 65. Of the affections of fathers to their children [not yet available]
• 66. Of the arms of the Parthians [not yet available]
• 67. Of books
• 68. Of cruelty [not yet available]
• 69. Apology for Raimond de Sebonde [not yet available]
• 70. Of judging of the death of another [not yet available]
• 71. The mind that hinders itself [not yet available]
• 72. That our desires are augmented by difficulties [not yet available]
• 73. Of glory
• 74. Of presumption
• 75. Of giving the lie [not yet available]
• 76. Of liberty of conscience [not yet available]
• 77. That we taste nothing pure
• 78. Against idleness [not yet available]
• 79. Of posts [not yet available]
• 80. Of ill means employed to a good end [not yet available]
• 81. Of the Roman grandeur [not yet available]
• 82. Not to counterfeit being sick [not yet available]
• 83. Of thumbs
• 84. Cowardice the mother of cruelty [not yet available]
• 85. All things have their season [not yet available]
• 86. Of vertue [not yet available]
• 87. Of a monstrous child [not yet available]
• 88. Of anger [not yet available]
• 89. Defence of Seneca and Plutarch [not yet available]
• 90. The Story of Spurina [not yet available]
• 91. On the means to carry on a way according to Julius Caesar [not yet available]
• 92. Of three good women [not yet available]
• 93. Of the most excellent men [not yet available]
• 94. Of the resemblance of children to their fathers

Book 3 (1588)

• 95. Of profit and honesty [not yet available]
• 96. Of repentance
• 97. Of three commerces [not yet available]
• 98. Of diversion [not yet available]
• 99. On some verses of Virgil
• 100. Of coaches
• 101. Of the inconvenience of greatness [not yet available]
• 102. Of the art of conferring [not yet available]
• 103. Of vanity
• 104. Of managing the will
• 105. Of cripples
• 106. Of physiognomy
• 107. Of experience