Blaise Pascal Quotes

There are vices which have no hold upon us, but in connection with others; and which, when you cut down the trunk, fall like the branches.

Blaise Pascal

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• There are vices which have no hold upon us, but in connection with others; and which, when you cut down the trunk, fall like the branches.

  

  Blaise Pascal
  • Connection
  • Vices
  • Trunk