"Mathematics reveals its secrets only to those who approach it with pure love, for its own beauty."
"It follows at once from the last proposition that the centre of gravity of any triangle is at the intersection of the lines drawn from any two angles to the middle points of the opposite sides respectively."
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Source: Archimedes (2007). “The Works of Archimedes”, p.201, Cosimo, Inc.
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