• For as old age is that period of life most remote from infancy, who does not see that old age in this universal man ought not to be sought in the times nearest his birth, but in those most remote from it?

    Blaise Pascal: For as old age is that period of life most remote from infancy, who does not see that old age in this universal man ought not to be sought in the times nearest his birth, but in those most
 remote from it?
    Blaise Pascal (2010). “Thoughts, Letters and Minor Works”, p.449, Cosimo, Inc.