Blaise Pascal Quotes

Nothing is good but mediocrity. The majority has settled that, and finds fault with him who escapes it at whichever end... To leave the mean is to abandon humanity.

Blaise Pascal

• Humanity
• Faults
• Mediocrity
• Escapes

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• Nothing is good but mediocrity. The majority has settled that, and finds fault with him who escapes it at whichever end... To leave the mean is to abandon humanity.

  

  Blaise Pascal
  • Humanity
  • Faults
  • Mediocrity