_Misery._--Solomon[79] and Job have best known and best spoken of the … — Pensées

Pensées — Blaise Pascal

_Misery._--Solomon[79] and Job have best known and best spoken of the misery of man; the former the most fortunate, and the latter the most unfortunate of men; the former knowing the vanity of pleasures from experience, the latter the reality of evils.

Place: Part I, 1, 2, c. 1, section 4.[44] · ¶524
License: Public domain · Source
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