When we would pursue virtues to their extremes on either side, vices p… — Pensées

Pensées — Blaise Pascal

When we would pursue virtues to their extremes on either side, vices present themselves, which insinuate themselves insensibly there, in their insensible journey towards the infinitely little: and vices present themselves in a crowd towards the infinitely great, so that we lose ourselves in them, and no longer see virtues. We find fault with perfection itself.

Place: SECTION VI · ¶1017
License: Public domain · Source
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