• It is not shameful for a man to succumb to pain and it is shameful to succumb to pleasure.

  Original: Il nest pas honteux pour lhomme de succomber sous la douleur et il est honteux de succomber sous le plaisir.

  Source: Pensees (1669)

  Blaise Pascal
  French mathematician, physicist and philosopher 1623-1662
  

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1. shameful
2. pleasure

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It is not shameful for a man to succumb to pain and it is shameful to succumb to pleasure. by : Blaise Pascal

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