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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.


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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.


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Men naturally slaters and of all callings, save in their own rooms.


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_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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