What a chimera then is man! What a novelty! What a monster, what a chaos, what a contradiction, what a prodigy! Judge of all things, imbecile worm of the earth, depository of truth, a sewer of uncertainty and error, the glory and the scum of the universe!
Pascal's Wager, mathematician
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