Blaise Pascal Quotes

Le silence est la plus grande perse cution: jamais les saints ne se sont tus. Silence is the greatest of all persecutions: no saint was ever silent.

Blaise Pascal

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• Le silence est la plus grande perse cution: jamais les saints ne se sont tus. Silence is the greatest of all persecutions: no saint was ever silent.

  

  Blaise Pascal
  • Silence
  • Saint
  • Persecutions