All the unhappiness of men arises from one single fact, that they cannot stay quietly in their own chamber.
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Blaise PascalPensees, 139, tr. W. F. Trotter
About Blaise Pascal
French mathematician, physicist and religious philosopher who wrote the Pensees. (1623-1662)
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