Can anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me beca…

Blaise Pascal
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Can anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of a river and his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have not quarrelled with him?
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In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don't. ✨ Pensées by Blaise Pascal, 1669.
Truly it is an evil to be full of faults; but it is a still greater evil to be full of them and to be unwilling to recognize them, since that is to add the further fault of a voluntary illusion. ✨ Bl … ▶
All mankind's troubles are caused by one single thing, which is their inability to sit quietly.
Man is obviously made for thinking. Therein lies all his dignity and his merit; and his whole duty is to think as he ought. ✨ Blaise Pascal (1966). Pascal Pensées, Penguin Classics
Look for the truth, it wants to be found.

Can anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of a river and his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have not quarrelled with him?

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