But on further consideration, when, after finding the cause of all our… — Pensées

Pensées — Blaise Pascal

But on further consideration, when, after finding the cause of all our ills, I have sought to discover the reason of it, I have found that there is one very real reason, namely, the natural poverty of our feeble and mortal condition, so miserable that nothing can comfort us when we think of it closely.

Place: Part I, 1, 2, c. 1, section 4.[44] · ¶425
License: Public domain · Source
The text is given as in the edition, unedited.

← BackNext →Check your own quote