Distrust even Mathematics; albeit so sublime and highly perfected, we have here a machine of such delicacy it can only work in vacuo, and one grain of sand in the wheels is enough to put everything out of gear. One shudders to think to what disaster such a grain of sand may bring a Mathematical brain. Remember Pascal.
Anatole FranceI ought not to fear to survive my own people so long as there are men in the world; for there are always some whom one can love.
Anatole FranceThat child whose mother has never smiled upon him is worthy neither of the table of the gods nor the couch of the goddesses.
Anatole France