What a chimera then is man What a novelty What a monster, what a chaos, what a subject of contradiction, what a prodigy Judge of all things, feeble earthworm, depository of truth, a sink of uncertainty and error, the glory and the shame of the universe. (Blaise Pascal)

What a chimera then is man What a novelty What a monster, what a chaos, what a subject of contradiction, what a prodigy Judge of all things, feeble earthworm, depository of truth, a sink of uncertainty and error, the glory and the shame of the universe.

Blaise Pascal

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