Man is full of wants: he loves only those who can satisfy them all. "T… — Pensées

Pensées — Blaise Pascal

Man is full of wants: he loves only those who can satisfy them all. "This one is a good mathematician," one will say. But I have nothing to do with mathematics; he would take me for a proposition. "That one is a good soldier." He would take me for a besieged town. I need, then, an upright man who can accommodate himself generally to all my wants.

Place: SECTION I · ¶140
License: Public domain · Source
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