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Passions Quotes by Blaise Pascal
- Man finds nothing so intolerable as to be in a state of complete rest, without passions, without occupation, without diversion, without effort. Then he feels…
- The two principles of truth, reason and senses, are not only both not genuine, but are engaged in mutual deception. The senses deceive reason through…
- On the occasions when I have pondered over men's various activities, the dangers and worries they are exposed to at court or at war, from…
- Now, if the passions had no hold on us, a week and a hundred years would amount to the same.
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