How comes it that a cripple does not offend us, but that a fool does?[… — Pensées

Pensées — Blaise Pascal

How comes it that a cripple does not offend us, but that a fool does?[45] Because a cripple recognises 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.

Place: Part I, 1, 2, c. 1, section 4.[44] · ¶268
License: Public domain · Source
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