As nature makes us always unhappy in every state, our desires picture … — Pensées

Pensées — Blaise Pascal

As nature makes us always unhappy in every state, our desires picture to us a happy state; because they add to the state in which we are the pleasures of the state in which we are not. And if we attained to these pleasures, we should not be happy after all; because we should have other desires natural to this new state.

Place: Part I, 1, 2, c. 1, section 4.[44] · ¶360
License: Public domain · Source
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