We do not require great education of the mind to understand that here … — Pensées

Pensées — Blaise Pascal

We do not require great education of the mind to understand that here is no real and lasting satisfaction; that our pleasures are only vanity; that our evils are infinite; and, lastly, that death, which threatens us every moment, must infallibly place us within a few years under the dreadful necessity of being for ever either annihilated or unhappy.

Place: SECTION III · ¶574
License: Public domain · Source
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