Man is full of desires: he loves only those who can satisfy them all. …

Blaise Pascal
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Man is full of desires: he loves only those who can satisfy them all. This man is a good mathematician, someone will say. But I have no concern for mathematics; he would take me for a proposition. That one is a good soldier. He would take me for a besieged town. I need, that is to say, a decent man who can accommodate himself to all my desires in a general sort of way.
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