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The "Characters" of Jean de La Bruyère

Note 890 — XVI. OF FREETHINKERS.853

Henri Van Laun translation

Pascal already in his Pensées (i. 6.) had called man “a thinking reed ... nobler than the universe, even if it were to crush him, because he knows he has to die.”

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