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vices
«We suffer primarily not from our vices or our weaknesses, but from our illusions. We are haunted, not by reality, but by those images we have put in their place.»
Author: Daniel J. Boorstin
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haunted, illusions, images, primarily, put in, The Haunted, The Haunting, vices, weaknesses
«Who is there who has not been overcome by the ravages of time? What beggar has attained glory? Who has become happy by contracting the vices of the wicked?»
«When the passions become masters, they are vices»
Author: Blaise Pascal
(Mathematician, Philosopher, Physicist)
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Masters, The Passions, vices
«When our relatives are at home, we have to think of all their good points or it would be impossible to endure them. But when they are away, we console ourselves for their absence by dwelling on their vices.»
«Wolves which batten upon lambs, lambs consumed by wolves, the strong who immolate the weak, the weak victims of the strong: there you have Nature, there you have her intentions, there you have her scheme: a perpetual action and reaction, a host of vices, a host of virtues, in one word, a perfect equilibrium resulting from the equality of good and evil on earth.»
