The entire lower world was created in the likeness of the higher world…

Michel de Montaigne
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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. ✨ Attributed to Essais by Michel de Montaigne, 1595.
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Live as long as you please, you will strike nothing off the time you will have to spend dead. ✨ Michel de Montaigne (1958). Complete Essays, p.66, Stanford University Press
Even from their infancy we frame them to the sports of love: their instruction, behavior, attire, grace, learning and all their words azimuth only at love, respects only affection. Their nurses and t … ▶
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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. ✨ Attributed to Essais by Michel de Montaigne, 1595.

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