We are so unfortunate that we can only take pleasure in a thing on con… — Pensées

Pensées — Blaise Pascal

We are so unfortunate that we can only take pleasure in a thing on condition of being annoyed if it turn out ill, as a thousand things can do, and do every hour. He who should find the secret of rejoicing in the good, without troubling himself with its contrary evil, would have hit the mark. It is perpetual motion.

Place: Part I, 1, 2, c. 1, section 4.[44] · ¶538
License: Public domain · Source
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