How useless is painting, which attracts admiration by the resemblance of things, the originals of which we do not admire!
 Blaise Pascal, Pensées (1670). copy citation

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Author Blaise Pascal
Source Pensées
Topic admiration resemblance
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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“They were still young men, and thus difficult to restrain. But Cæsar should have been more mature. 133 Two faces which resemble each other, make us laugh, when together, by their resemblance, though neither of them by itself makes us laugh. 134 How useless is painting, which attracts admiration by the resemblance of things, the originals of which we do not admire! 135 The struggle alone pleases us, not the victory. We love to see animals fighting, not the victor infuriated over the vanquished. We would only see the victorious end; and, as soon as it comes, we are satiated.” source