But man is a Noble Animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave, solemnizing Nativities and Deaths with equal lustre, nor omitting Ceremonies of Bravery, in the infamy of his nature. Life is a pure flame, and we live by an invisible Sun within us.
Bio: Lazare Nicolas Marguerite, Comte Carnot, the Organizer of Victory in the French Revolutionary Wars, was a French politician, engineer, freemason and mathematician.
