Gustave Flaubert. Bouvard and Pecuchet (№ 437669)

Finally, they wondered if people live in the stars. Why shouldn't they live there? And since the universe is harmonious, the inhabitants of Sirius should be of huge growth, Mars - medium, and Venus - small, unless they are the same everywhere. Up there, there are merchants, gendarmes, there they trade, they fight, they overthrow kings.