“We are no nearer heaven on the top of Mount Cenis than at the bottom of the sea; take the distance with your astrolabe. They debase God even to the carnal knowledge of women, to so many times, and so many generations.”

—  Michel De Montaigne , book Essays

Book II, Ch. 12
Essais (1595), Book II

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