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Quotation by Blaise Pascal
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Lettres Provinciales (1657)"Memorial 1654" Selections, ed. R.H. Popkin, Macmillan, New York (1989)Pensèes (c. 1659)Pensées (1670), trans. J.M. Dent & Sons, London (1931)Pensées (1670)Related Subjects
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How comes it that a cripple does not offend us, but a fool does? Because a cripple recognizes that we walk straight, whereas a fool declares that it is we who are silly; if it were not so, we should feel pity and not anger.
Blaise Pascal (1623–1662), French scientist, philosopher. repr. Encyclopedia Britannica, Chicago (1952). Pensées, no. 80 (1670), trans. J.M. Dent & Sons, London (1931).
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