Michel de Montaigne Quote

We find ourselves more taken with the running up and down, the games, and puerile simplicities of our children, than we do, afterward, with their most complete actions; as if we had loved them for our sport, like monkeys, and not as men.


Essays of Montaigne, tr. by C. Cotton; rev. by W. C. Hazlett [! (ed. 1910)


We find ourselves more taken with the running up and down, the games, and puerile simplicities of our children, than we do, afterward, with their...

We find ourselves more taken with the running up and down, the games, and puerile simplicities of our children, than we do, afterward, with their...

We find ourselves more taken with the running up and down, the games, and puerile simplicities of our children, than we do, afterward, with their...

We find ourselves more taken with the running up and down, the games, and puerile simplicities of our children, than we do, afterward, with their...