"There is not less wit nor invention in……" — Pierre Bayle

"There is not less wit nor invention in applying rightly a thought one finds in a book, than in being the first author of that thought. Cardinal du Perron has been heard to say that the happy application of a verse of Virgil has deserved a talent."

Pierre Bayle

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