A man who seeks truth and loves it must be reckoned precious to any human society.
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To your care and recommendation am I indebted for having replaced a half-blind mathematician with a mathematician with both eyes, which will especially please the anatomical members of my Academy. To D'Alembert about Lagrange. Euler had vacated the post.
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If I wished to punish a province, I would have it governed By philosophers.
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Books make up no small part of human happiness.
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