"The best thing on translation was said by Cervantes: translation is the other side of a tapestry."
"All of Sicily is a dimension of the imagination."
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Source: Leonhard Euler (2012). “Introduction to Analysis of the Infinite”, p.3, Springer Science & Business Media
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