Things which have most hold on us, as the concealment of our few posse… — Pensées

Pensées — Blaise Pascal

Things which have most hold on us, as the concealment of our few possessions, are often a mere nothing. It is a nothing which our imagination magnifies into a mountain. Another turn of the imagination would make us discover this without difficulty.

Place: Part I, 1, 2, c. 1, section 4.[44] · ¶297
License: Public domain · Source
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