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Michel de Montaigne Quotes:

Ocupation: Writer

Life: February 28, 1533 - September 13, 1592

Birthday: February 28

Death: September 13

We are born to inquire after truth; it belongs to a greater power to possess it. It is not, as Democritus said, hid in the bottom of the deeps, but rather elevated to an infinite height in the divine knowledge.

- Michel de Montaigne

source: Michel de Montaigne (2015). “Montaigne's Essays: Top Essays”, p.952, 谷月社

topic: Height, Infinite, Divine, Greater Power

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