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Pensées by Blaise Pascal

Posted on October 5, 2018January 29, 2019 by admin

All of humanity’s problems stem from man’s inability to sit quietly in a room alone.   Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.   Curiosity is only vanity. We usually only want to know something so that we can talk about it.

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