The last act is bloody, however fine the rest of the play - Blaise Pascal

Wretchedness induces despair. Pride produces presumption. The incarnation shows man the greatness of his wretchedness through the greatness of the remedy required.

These five rules [above] form all that is necessary to render proofs convincing, immutable, and to say all, geometrical; and the eight rules together render them even more perfect.

The virtue of a man ought to be measured not by his extraordinary exertions, but by his every-day conduct.