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Rules necessary for definitions . Not to leave any terms at all obscure or ambig — Blaise Pascal

Rules necessary for definitions . Not to leave any terms at all obscure or ambiguous without definition; Not to employ in definitions any but terms perfectly known or already explained.

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FEU. Dieu d'Abraham, Dieu d'Isaac, Dieu de Jacob, non des philosophes et savants — Blaise Pascal
They have corrupted this order by making profane things what they should make of — Blaise Pascal
C'est une maladie naturelle à l'homme de croire qu'il possède la vérité directem — Blaise Pascal
Nothing is more common than good things: the point in question is only to discri — Blaise Pascal
Je ne vois qu'une règle: être clair. Si je ne suis pas clair, tout mon monde est — Stendhal
Really, if the lower orders don't set us a good example, what on earth is the us — Oscar Wilde
凡用兵之法，全國爲上；破國次之；全軍爲上，破軍次之；全旅爲上，破旅次之；全卒爲上，破卒次之；全伍爲上，破伍次之。 — Sun Tzu
Any fool can make a rule And every fool will mind it. — Henry David Thoreau
To try to live in posterity is to be like an actor who leaps over the footlights — Samuel Butler
Always do right. This will gratify some people, and astonish the rest. — Mark Twain
Il est impossible d'aimer une seconde fois ce qu'on a véritablement cessé d'aime — François de La Rochefoucauld
It is ill to praise, and worse to reprimand in matters that you do not understan — Leonardo da Vinci