Micromégas quotes
5 quotes from Micromégas by Voltaire, each verified verbatim against the text and located in the book.
Micromégas
Voltaire
About Voltaire
I tell you once for all, nature is like nature, and comparisons are odious.
I am now more than ever convinced that we ought to judge of nothing by its external magnitude.
we measure lines, we make calculations, we agree upon two or three points which we understand, and dispute upon two or three thousand that are beyond our comprehension.
it is but reasonable we should quote what we do not comprehend in a language we do not understand.
Accordingly, before his departure, he made them a present of the book, which was brought to the Academy of Sciences at Paris, but when the old secretary came to open it he saw nothing but blank paper
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