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• There is an astonishing imagination, even in the science of mathematics. ... We repeat, there was far more imagination in the head…
• History contains little beyond a list of people who have accommodate themselves with other people's property.
• History is nothing but a pack of tricks that we play upon the dead.
• The best way to be boring is to include everything.
• The more often a stupidity is repeated, the more it gets the appearance of wisdom.
• All is a miracle. The stupendous order of nature, the revolution of a hundred millions of worlds around a million of stars,…
• A physician is an unfortunate gentleman who is every day required to perform a miracle; namely to reconcile health with intemperance.
• Descartes constructed as noble a road of science, from the point at which he found geometry to that to which he carried…
• Almost all life depends on probabilities.
• What can we say with certainty?
• Let us confess it: evil strides the world.
• Will is wish, and liberty is power.

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