• Nature gives us... passions and desires suitable to our present state. We are only troubled by the fears which we, and not nature, give ourselves...

  Source: Pensees (1669)

  Blaise Pascal
  French mathematician, physicist and philosopher 1623-1662
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1. ourselves
2. suitable
3. troubled
4. state
5. fears
6. which

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Nature gives us... passions and desires suitable to our present state. We are only troubled by the fears which we, and not nature, give ourselves... by : Blaise Pascal

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