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Besides, the punishment should not be inflicted upon them, but upon those sedentary and slothful barbarians, who, from their palaces, give orders for murdering a million of men and then solemnly…
I tell you once for all, nature is like nature, and comparisons are odious.
I am now more than ever convinced that we ought to judge of nothing by its external magnitude. O God! who hast bestowed understanding upon such seemingly contemptible substances, thou canst with…
So, you see, we in a manner begin to die the very moment we are born: our existence is no more than a point, our duration an instant, and our globe an atom. Scarce do we begin to learn a little, when…
Micromegas: Why then do you quote that same Aristotle in Greek?
Aristotelian philosopher: Because … it is but reasonable we should quote what we do not comprehend in a language we do not understand.
We anatomize flies, … we measure lines, we make calculations, we agree upon two or three points which we understand, and dispute upon two or three thousand that are beyond our comprehension.