Our nature consists in motion; complete rest is death.
 Blaise Pascal, Pensées (1670). copy citation

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Author Blaise Pascal
Source Pensées
Topic death motion
Date 1670
Language English
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Note Translated by W. F. Trotter
Weblink http://www.gutenberg.org/files/18269/18269-h/18269-h.htm

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“A man dwells at home with pleasure; but if he sees a woman who charms him, or if he enjoys himself in play for five or six days, he is miserable if he returns to his former way of living. Nothing is more common than that. 129 Our nature consists in motion; complete rest is death. [65] 130 Restlessness.—If a soldier, or labourer, complain of the hardship of his lot, set him to do nothing. [Pg 38] 131 Weariness. [66] —Nothing is so insufferable to man as to be completely at rest, without passions, without business, without diversion, without study.” source