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

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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Blaise Pascal

French mathematician, physicist, inventor, writer, and Christian philosopher

June 19th, 1623 - August 19th, 1662

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