_Diversion._--If man were happy, he would be the more so, the less he … — Pensées

Pensées — Blaise Pascal

_Diversion._--If man were happy, he would be the more so, the less he was diverted, like the Saints and God.--Yes; but is it not to be happy to have a faculty of being amused by diversion?--No; for that comes from elsewhere and from without, and thus is dependent, and therefore subject to be disturbed by a thousand accidents, which bring inevitable griefs.

Place: Part I, 1, 2, c. 1, section 4.[44] · ¶515
License: Public domain · Source
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