Thus our first interest and our first duty is to enlighten ourselves o… — Pensées

Pensées — Blaise Pascal

Thus our first interest and our first duty is to enlighten ourselves on this subject, whereon depends all our conduct. Therefore among those who do not believe, I make a vast difference between those who strive with all their power to inform themselves, and those who live without troubling or thinking about it.

Place: SECTION III · ¶570
License: Public domain · Source
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