Hence it comes that men so much love noise and stir; hence it comes th… — Pensées

Pensées — Blaise Pascal

Hence it comes that men so much love noise and stir; hence it comes that the prison is so horrible a punishment; hence it comes that the pleasure of solitude is a thing incomprehensible. And it is in fact the greatest source of happiness in the condition of kings, that men try incessantly to divert them, and to procure for them all kinds of pleasures.

Place: Part I, 1, 2, c. 1, section 4.[44] · ¶429
License: Public domain · Source
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