There is more business in interpreting interpretations than in interpreting things, and more books on books than on any other subject: all we do is gloss each other. All is a-swarm with commentaries: of authors there is a dearth.


Essays (1580, ed. M. Rat, 1958) bk. 3, ch. 13

Michel de Montaigne Quotes

There is more business in interpreting interpretations than in interpreting things, and more books on books than on any other subject: all we do is...

There is more business in interpreting interpretations than in interpreting things, and more books on books than on any other subject: all we do is...

There is more business in interpreting interpretations than in interpreting things, and more books on books than on any other subject: all we do is...

There is more business in interpreting interpretations than in interpreting things, and more books on books than on any other subject: all we do is...