I, who am a very earthy person, loathe that inhuman teaching which would make us despise and dislike the care of the body. I consider it just as wrong to reject natural pleasures as to set too much store by them.

[Moy qui ne manie que terre à terre, hay ceste inhumaine sapience, qui nous veut rendre desdaigneux & ennemis de la culture du corps. J’estime pareille injustice, de prendre à contre-cœur les voluptez naturelles, que de les prendre trop à cœur.]

Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592) French essayist

Essays, Book 3, ch. 13 “On Experience [De l’Experience]” (1588) (3.13) (1595) [tr. Cohen (1958)]
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(Source (French)). Alternate translations:

My selfe, who but grovell on the ground, hate that kinde of inhumane Wisedome, which would make us disdainefull and enemies of the bodies reformation. I deeme it an equall injustice, either to take naturall sensualities against the hart, or to take them too neere the hart.
[tr. Florio (1603)]

But I, who but crawl upon the Earth, hate this inhuman Wisdom, that will have us despise and hate all Culture of Body. I look upon it as an equal injustice to loath natural Pleasures, as to be too much in love with them.
[tr. Cotton (1686)]

I, who but crawl upon the earth, hate this inhuman wisdom, that will have us despise and hate all culture of the body; I look upon it as an equal injustice to loath natural pleasures as to be too much in love with them.
[tr. Cotton/Hazlitt (1877)]

I, who carry myself close to the ground, detest that inhuman wisdom that would make us disdain and be hostile to the care of the body. I deem it equally wrong to accept natural pleasures unwillingly and to accept them too willingly.
[tr. Ives (1925)]

I, who operate only close to the ground, hate that inhuman wisdom that would make us disdainful enemies of the cultivation of the body. I consider it equal injustice to set our heart against natural pleasures and to set our heart too much on them.
[tr. Frame (1943)]

I, who am always down-to-earth in my handling of anything. loathe that inhuman wisdom which seeks to render us disdainful and hostile towards the care of our bodies. I reckon that it is as injudicious to set our minds against natural pleasures as to allow them to dwell on them.
[tr. Screech (1987)]