Things have different qualities, and the soul different inclinations; …

Blaise Pascal
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Things have different qualities, and the soul different inclinations; for nothing is simple which is presented to the soul, and the soul never presents itself simply to any object. Hence it comes that we weep and laugh at the same thing. ✨ Blaise Pascal (2013). Pascal's Pensees, p.38, Simon and Schuster
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