Extremes Quote by Michel de Montaigne

“He that had never seen a river imagined the first he met to be the sea; and the greatest things that have fallen within our knowledge we conclude the extremes that nature makes of the kind.” quote by Michel de Montaigne — Download Open image

“He that had never seen a river imagined the first he met to be the sea; and the greatest things that have fallen within our knowledge we conclude the extremes that nature makes of the kind.”

Michel de Montaigne

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