Epigram · Philosophical literatureWhat a chimera then is man! What a novelty! What a monster, what a chaos, what a contradiction, what a prodigy! Judge of all things, feeble earth-worn, depository of truth, a sink of uncertainty and error, the glory and the shame of the universe.Blaise PascalPensees · 1670★ 7.0
Epigram · Philosophical literatureThe last act is bloody, no matter how happy the rest of the play.Blaise PascalPensees · 1670★ 5.5
Epigram · Philosophical literatureWe know the truth, not only by the reason, but by the heart.Blaise PascalPensees · 1670★ 4.7
Epigram · Philosophical literatureMan is neither angel nor beast; and the misfortune is that he who would act the angel acts the beast.Blaise PascalPensees · 1670★ 3.8
Play · Tragedy (play)I am as free as nature first made man, Ere the base laws of servitude began, When wild in woods the noble savage ran.John Dryden1670★ 3.6
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