Quote #32

Justice is as much a matter of fashion as charm is. (309)

More from Blaise Pascal

  1. Il n'est pas honteux pour l'homme de succomber sous la douleur et il est honteux de succomber sous le plaisir. (160)
  2. Knowledge of physical science will not console me for ignorance of morality in time of affliction, but knowledge of morality will always co…
  3. It is not in space that I must seek my human dignity, but in the ordering of my thought. It will do me no good to own land. Through space t…
  4. Make religion attractive, make good men wish it were true, and then show that it is. Worthy of reverence because it really understands huma…
  5. Il n'est pas certain que tout soit incertain. (387)
  6. L'homme est un roseau, le plus faible de la nature, mais c'est un roseau pensant. (347)
  7. It is a funny sort of justice whose limits are marked by a river; true on this side of the Pyrenees, false on the other. (294)
  8. Man is only a disguise, a liar, a hypocrite, both to himself and to others. (377)

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