Blaise Pascal Quotes

We are only troubled by the fears which we, and not nature, give ourselves, for they add to the state in which we are the passions of the state in which we are not.

Blaise Pascal

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• We are only troubled by the fears which we, and not nature, give ourselves, for they add to the state in which we are the passions of the state in which we are not.

  

  Blaise Pascal
  • Nature
  • State
  • Passions