Children who are frightened at the face they have blackened are but ch… — Pensées

Pensées — Blaise Pascal

Children who are frightened at the face they have blackened are but children. But how shall one who is so weak in his childhood become really strong when he grows older? We only change our fancies. All that is made perfect by progress perishes also by progress. All that has been weak can never become absolutely strong. We say in vain, "He has grown, he has changed"; he is also the same.

Place: Part I, 1, 2, c. 1, section 4.[44] · ¶304
License: Public domain · Source
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