When our passion leads us to do something, we forget our duty; for exa… — Pensées

Pensées — Blaise Pascal

When our passion leads us to do something, we forget our duty; for example, we like a book and read it, when we ought to be doing something else. Now, to remind ourselves of our duty, we must set ourselves a task we dislike; we then plead that we have something else to do, and by this means remember our duty.

الموضع: Part I, 1, 2, c. 1, section 4.[44] · ¶349
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