[798:3] Borrowed from Cyrano de Bergerac's "Pédant joué," act ii. sc. 4.
[798:4] Sigismund I. at the Council of Constance, 1414, said to a prelate who had objected to his Majesty's grammar, "Ego sum rex Romanus, et supra grammaticam" (I am the Roman emperor, and am above grammar).
BLAISE PASCAL. 1623-1662.
(Translated by O. W. Wight.)
Man is but a reed, the weakest in nature, but he is a thinking reed.
Thoughts. Chap. ii. 10.
It is not permitted to the most equitable of men to be a judge in his own cause.
Thoughts. Chap. iv. 1.
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