All the unhappiness of men comes from one thing — they do not know how to stay quietly in a room.
Tout le malheur des hommes vient d'une seule chose, qui est de ne savoir pas demeurer en repos dans une chambre.
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Blaise Pascal
French mathematician, physicist, philosopher (1623-1662). Inventor of the mechanical calculator, founder of probability theory, author of the Pensees. Dead at thirty-nine, he set the template for existential thought.
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