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Sunday, September 30, 2007

Blaise Pascal (1623-1662)


Can anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of a river and his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have not quarrelled with him?

Books from Alibris: Blaise Pascal
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