Hence comes the right of the sword, for the sword gives a true right. … — Pensées

Pensées — Blaise Pascal

Hence comes the right of the sword, for the sword gives a true right. Otherwise we should see violence on one side and justice on the other (end of the twelfth _Provincial_). Hence comes the injustice of the Fronde,[365] which raises its alleged justice against power. It is not the same in the Church, for there is a true justice and no violence.

Place: SECTION XIV · ¶2869
License: Public domain · Source
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