Note 317:2 — FAMILIAR QUOTATIONS. (continued 6)
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What a chimera, then, is man! what a novelty, what a monster, what a chaos, what a subject of contradiction, what a prodigy! A judge of all things, feeble worm of the earth, depositary of the truth, cloaca of uncertainty and error, the glory and the shame of the universe.—Pascal: Thoughts, chap. x.