Blaise Pascal quote about sin from Pensées - There are only two kinds of men: the righteous who believe themselves sinners; the rest, sinners, who believe themselves righteous.
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There are only two kinds of men: the righteous who believe themselves sinners; the rest, sinners, who believe themselves righteous.
 Blaise Pascal, Pensées (1670). copy citation

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Author Blaise Pascal
Source Pensées
Topic sin virtue belief
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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532 Comminutum cor (Saint Paul). This is the Christian character. Alba has named you, I know you no more (Corneille).[ 198] That is the inhuman character. The human character is the opposite.
533 There are only two kinds of men: the righteous who believe themselves sinners; the rest, sinners, who believe themselves righteous. 534 We owe a great debt to those who point out faults. For they mortify us. They teach us that we have been despised. They do not prevent our being so in the future; for we have many other faults for which we may be despised.” source
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