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"L'homme ne poursuit que des chimères."

— Pierre-Simon Laplace

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His true last words, according to Augustus De Morgan's Budget of Paradoxes (1866). | Compare Edmund Burke's famous remark, after a parliamentary candidate's sudden death, about "what shadows we are, and what shadows we pursue". | ----

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