_Pride._--Curiosity is only vanity. Most frequently we wish to know bu… — Pensées

Pensées — Blaise Pascal

_Pride._--Curiosity is only vanity. Most frequently we wish to know but to talk. Otherwise we would not take a sea voyage in order never to talk of it, and for the sole pleasure of seeing without hope of ever communicating it.

Place: Part I, 1, 2, c. 1, section 4.[44] · ¶475
License: Public domain · Source
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