L’agitation et la chasse est proprement de nostre gibier: nous ne sommes pas excusables de la conduire mal et impertinemment; de faillir à la prise, c’est autre chose. Car nous sommes nais à quester la verité; il appartient de la posseder à une plus grande puissance. (Montaigne)

Agitation and the chase are properly our quarry; we are not excusable if we conduct it badly and irrelevantly; to fail in the catch is another thing. For we are born to quest after truth; to possess it belongs to a greater power. (Donald Frame, 1943)

Agitation, stirring and hunting, is properly belonging to our subject or drift; wee are not excusable to conduct the same ill and impertinently, but to misse the game and faile in taking, that’s another matter. For wee are borne to quest and seeke after trueth; to possesse it belongs to a greater power. (John Florio, 1603)

To hunt after truth is properly our business, and we are inexcusable if we carry on the chase impertinently and ill; to fail of seizing it is another thing, for we are born to inquire after truth: it belongs to a greater power to possess it. (Charles Cotton, 1685)

The real object of our hunting is excitement and the hunt itself; we have no excuse for conducting it badly and irrelevantly. To fail in capturing any thing is another matter, for we are destined from birth to quest the truth; to possess it belongs to a greater power. (George Burnham Ives, 1925)

The excitement of the chase is properly our quarry. We are not to be pardoned if we carry it on badly or foolishly; to fail to seize the prey is a different matter. For we are born search after the truth; to possess it belongs to a greater power. (Emil J. Trechmann, 1927)

The activity of the hunt is properly our business; we are not excused if we conduct it badly and unsuitably; to fail in seizing the prey is another thing. For we are born to quest after truth; to possess it belogs to a greater power. (Jacob Zeitlin, 1934)

The active pursuit of truth is our proper business. We have no excuse for conducting it badly or unfittingly. But failure to capture our prey is another matter. For we are born to quest after it; to possess it belongs to a greater power. (John M. Cohen, 1958)

The game which we hunt is the fun of the chase: we are inexcusable if we pursue it badly or foolishly: it is quite another thing if we fail to make a kill. For we are born to go in quest of truth: to take possession of it is the property of a greater Power. (M. A. Screech, 1987)