John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.
9314 Mihel Eyquem
| NUMBER: | 9314 |
| AUTHOR: | Michel Eyquem, seigneur de Montaigne (1533–1592) |
| QUOTATION: | 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. 1 |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Book iii. Chap. viii. Of the Art of Conversation. |
| Note 1. Lactantius: Divin. Instit. iii. 28. [back] |