WIST Quotations https://wist.info Wish I'd Said That! Wed, 02 Sep 2026 20:51:39 +0000 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.4 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.4 https://wist.info/wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/little-w-little-box-60x60.jpg glut – WIST Quotations https://wist.info 32 32 43606282 Montaigne, Michel de -- Essays, Book 1, ch. 42 (1.42), “Of the Inequality among Us [De l’inequalité qui est entre nous]” (1572) [tr. Frame (1943)] https://wist.info/montaigne-michel-de/85852/ https://wist.info/montaigne-michel-de/85852/#respond Wed, 02 Sep 2026 20:51:39 +0000 Dave https://wist.info/?p=85852 He who does not give himself leisure to be thirsty cannot take pleasure in drinking.

[Qui ne se donne loisir d’avoir soif, ne sçauroit prendre plaisir à boire.]


Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592) French essayist
Essays, Book 1, ch. 42 (1.42), “Of the Inequality among Us [De l’inequalité qui est entre nous]” (1572) [tr. Frame (1943)]
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On how having an appetite always sated removes the pleasure of sating it.

This essay and passage were in the first (1580) edition.

(Source (French)). Other translations:

He that cannot stay till he be thirstie, can take no pleasure in drinking.
[tr. Florio (1603)]

He who anticipates thirst, can never find the true pleasure of drinking.
[tr. Cotton (1686)]

He who will not give himself leisure to be thirsty can never find the true pleasure of drinking.
[tr. Cotton/Hazlitt (1877)]

He who does not permit himself to be thirsty can not take pleasure in drinking.
[tr. Ives (1925)]

If a man does not give himself time to get thirsty he will never enjoy drinking.
[tr. Screech (1987)]

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