We like to be deceived. ✨ Blaise Pascal (2013). Blaise Pascal Thoughts…

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We like to be deceived. ✨ Blaise Pascal (2013). Blaise Pascal Thoughts: Selected and Translated, p.18, Cambridge University Press
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