We sometimes learn more from the sight of evil than from an example of…

Blaise Pascal
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We sometimes learn more from the sight of evil than from an example of good; and it is well to accustom ourselves to profit by the evil which is so common, while that which is good is so rare. ✨ Blaise Pascal (1829). Thoughts on Religion and Other Subjects, p.205
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