All who say the same things do not possess them in the same manner; and hence the incomparable author of the Art of Conversation pauses with so much … - Blaise Pascal
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All who say the same things do not possess them in the same manner; and hence the incomparable author of the Art of Conversation pauses with so much care to make it understood that we must not judge of the capacity of a man by the excellence of a happy remark that we heard him make. ...let us penetrate, says he, the mind from which it proceeds... it will oftenest be seen that he will be made to disavow it on the spot, and will be drawn very far from this better thought in which he does not believe, to plunge himself into another, quite base and ridiculous.
Blaise Pascal (19 June 1623 – 19 August 1662) was a French mathematician, logician, physicist and theologian.
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Also Known As
Pen Names:
Louis de Montalte
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Amos Dettonville
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Salomon de Tultie
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Pascal
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Dettonville
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Paskal Blez
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La grandeur de l'homme est grande en ce qu'il se connaît misérable
For the chief malady of man is restless curiosity about things which he cannot understand; and it is not so bad for him to be in error as to be curious to no purpose.
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But there are some who can only admire worldly greatness, as though there were no intellectual greatness; and others who only admire intellectual greatness, as though there were not infinitely higher things in wisdom.
