Pascal's Pensées by Blaise Pascal
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brutality. We never seek things for themselves, but for the search.
Likewise in plays, scenes which do not rouse the emotion of fear are worthless, so are extreme and hopeless misery, brutal lust, and extreme cruelty. 136 A mere trifle consoles us, for a mere trifle distresses us.[68] 137 Without examining every particular pursuit, it is enough to comprehend them under diversion. 138 Men naturally slaters and of all callings, save in their own rooms. 139 _Diversion._--When I have occasionally set myself to consider the different distractions of men, the pains and perils to which they expose themselves at court or in war, whence arise so many quarrels, passions, bold and often bad ventures, etc., I have discovered that all the unhappiness of men arises from one single fact, that they cannot stay quietly in their own chamber. A man who has enough to live on, if he |
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