If we wished to prove the examples which we take to prove other things… — Pensées

Pensées — Blaise Pascal

If we wished to prove the examples which we take to prove other things, we should have to take those other things to be examples; for, as we always believe the difficulty is in what we wish to prove, we find the examples clearer and a help to demonstration.

Place: SECTION I · ¶148
License: Public domain · Source
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