_Midrasch el Kohelet_ on Ecclesiastes ix, 14: "A great king besieged a… — Pensées

Pensées — Blaise Pascal

_Midrasch el Kohelet_ on Ecclesiastes ix, 14: "A great king besieged a little city." This great king is the evil leaven; the great bulwarks built against it are temptations; and there has been found a poor wise man who has delivered it--that is to say, virtue.

Place: SECTION VII · ¶1284
License: Public domain · Source
The text is given as in the edition, unedited.

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