“ Our nature consists in motion; complete rest is death. ”
Blaise Pascal, Pensées (1670). copy citation
| Author | Blaise Pascal |
|---|---|
| Source | Pensées |
| Topic | death motion |
| Date | 1670 |
| Language | English |
| Reference | |
| 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.
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Our nature consists in motion; complete rest is death. [65]
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Restlessness.—If a soldier, or labourer, complain of the hardship of his lot, set him to do nothing. [Pg 38]
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Weariness. [66] —Nothing is so insufferable to man as to be completely at rest, without passions, without business, without diversion, without study.”
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