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• The more wit we have, the less satisfied we are with it.
• High office, is like a pyramid; only two kinds of animals reach the summit — reptiles and eagles.
• I am worn out by the insults and vexations that this work brings down on us.
• Algebra is generous; she often gives more than is asked of her.
• Thus metaphysics and mathematics are, among all the sciences that belong to reason, those in which imagination has the greatest role. I…
• Just go on . . . and faith will soon return. To a friend hesitant with respect to infinitesimals.
• To someone who could grasp the Universe from a unified standpoint the entire creation would appear as a unique truth and necessity.
• Just go on..and faith will soon return.
• If one looks at all closely at the middle of our own century, the events that occupy us, our customs, our achievements…
• One magnitude is said to be the limit of another magnitude when the second may approach the first within any given magnitude,…

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