And, if they are real, they are realized.

It is therefore credible, my dear Constantin Marc, that your play has been played a thousand years ago, or half an hour ago, which comes absolutely to the same thing.

It is credible that we have all been dead for some time past.

Think it, and your mind will be at rest." Constantin Marc, who had paid scant attention to his remarks and who did not perceive their relevance or their propriety, answered, in a somewhat irritable tone, that all that was to be found in Bossuet.
"In Bossuet!" exclaimed the indignant physician.

"I challenge you to show me anything resembling it in his works.