That dog is mine said those poor children; that place in the sun is mine; such is the beginning and type of usurpation throughout the earth.
In French: Ce chien est a moi, disaient ces pauvres enfants; c'est la ma place au soleil. Voila le commencement et l'image de l'usurpation de toute la terre.
The Thoughts, Letters and Opuscules of Blaise Pascal (ed. 1859)
