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“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
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Essais (wr. 1571–92; pub. 1580–95) / Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919), Book III, Ch. 8. Of the Art of Conversation
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