WIST Quotations<p><a href="https://wist.info/montaigne-michel-de/77048/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">A quotation from <b>Montaigne</b></a></p><blockquote>Philosophy does not do battle against such pleasures as are natural, provided that temperance accompanies them; she teaches moderation in such things not avoidance.<br> <br><i>[La philosophie n’estrive point contre les voluptez naturelles, pourveu que la mesure y soit joincte : & en presche la moderation, non la fuitte.]</i></blockquote><p><b>Michel de Montaigne</b> (1533-1592) French essayist<br>Essay (1586), “On some Lines of Virgil <i>[Sur des vers de Virgile], Essays,</i> Book 3, ch. 5 (3.5) (1595) [tr. Screech (1987)]</p> <p>Sourcing, notes, other translations: <a href="https://wist.info/montaigne-michel-de/77048/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">wist.info/montaigne-michel-de/…</a></p><p><a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=quote" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>quote</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=quotes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>quotes</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=quotation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>quotation</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=qotd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>qotd</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=montaigne" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>montaigne</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=abstinence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>abstinence</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=delight" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>delight</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=enjoyment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>enjoyment</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=moderation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>moderation</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=philosophy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>philosophy</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=pleasure" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>pleasure</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=selfcontrol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>selfcontrol</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=sensuality" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>sensuality</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=temperance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>temperance</span></a></p>