Quote #9
All these examples of wretchedness prove his greatness. It is the wretchedness of a great lord, the wretchedness of a dispossessed king. (425)
More from Blaise Pascal
- Tout notre raisonnement se reduit a ceder au sentiment. (274)
- An advocate who has been well paid in advance will find the cause he is pleading all the more just. (82)
- All men naturally hate one another; there could not be four friends in the world. (101)
- Anyone who found the secret of rejoicing when things go well without being annoyed when they go badly would have found the point. (181)
- A trifle consoles us because a trifle upsets us. (136)
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