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Caesar was too old, it seems to me, to go off and amuse himself conquering the world. Such a pastime was all right for Augustus and Alexander they were young men, not easily held in check, but Caesar ought to have been more mature.
Blaise Pascal
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Blaise Pascal
Age: 39 †
Born: 1623
Born: June 19
Died: 1662
Died: August 19
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Something incomprehensible is not for that reason less real.
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I can well conceive a man without hands, feet, head. But I cannot conceive man without thought he would be a stone or a brute.
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