"De toutes les définitions de l'homme, la plus mauvaise me paraît celle qui en fait un animal raisonnable."
— Anatole France

January 1, 1970

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Of all the ways of defining man, the worst is the one which makes him out to be a rational animal. — Le Petit Pierre (1918), ch. XXXIII