_Midrasch Tillim_ on Psalm iv, 4: "Stand in awe and sin not." Stand in… — Pensées

Pensées — Blaise Pascal

_Midrasch Tillim_ on Psalm iv, 4: "Stand in awe and sin not." Stand in awe and be afraid of your lust, and it will not lead you into sin. And on Psalm xxxvi, 1: "The wicked has said within his own heart, Let not the fear of God be before me." That is to say that the malignity natural to man has said that to the wicked.

Place: SECTION VII · ¶1280
License: Public domain · Source
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