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The entire lower world was created in the likeness of the higher world. All that exists in the higher world appears like an image in this lower world yet all this is but One.
Michel de Montaigne
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Michel de Montaigne
Age: 59 †
Born: 1533
Born: February 28
Died: 1592
Died: September 13
Autobiographer
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French Moralist
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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
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It costs an unreasonable woman no more to pass over one reason than another they cherish themselves most where they are most wrong.
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A little of everything and nothing thoroughly, after the French fashion.
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No spiritual mind remains within itself it is always aspiring and going beyond its own strength.
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