_Inconstancy and oddity._--To live only by work, and to rule over the … — Pensées

Pensées — Blaise Pascal

_Inconstancy and oddity._--To live only by work, and to rule over the most powerful State in the world, are very opposite things. They are united in the person of the great Sultan of the Turks.

Place: Part I, 1, 2, c. 1, section 4.[44] · ¶369
License: Public domain · Source
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