“What of a truth that is bounded by these mountains and is falsehood to the world that lives beyond?”

— Michel De Montaigne, book Essays

Quelle vérité que ces montagnes bornent, qui est mensonge qui se tient au delà?
Book II, Ch. 12
Essais (1595), Book II

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