 | Christian biography - 1826 - 440 pages
...regard no man but for his acquired qualities. All men hate one another naturally. I hold it a fact, that if men knew exactly what one says of the other,...thinking about it, than the thoughts of death without the risk of it. 62. It is wonderful indeed, that a thing so visible as the intfr vanity of this world,... | |
 | Blaise Pascal - Apologetics - 1846 - 386 pages
...regard no man but for his acquired qualities. All men naturally bate one another. 1 hold it a fact, that if men knew exactly what one says of the other,...to which occasional indiscreet reports give rise. LXI. Death is more easy to endure without thinking about it, than the thoughts of death without the... | |
 | Blaise Pascal - 1859 - 562 pages
...of? do not speak of it. XLII. I lay it down as a fact that, if all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world. This appears from the quarrels to which indiscreet reports occasionally give rise. XLIII. Diversion. — Death is easier to bear without thinking... | |
 | Craufurd Tait Ramage - Quotations, French - 1875 - 646 pages
...qu'on en fait quelquefois. I take it as a matter not to be disputed, that if all knew whav each said of the other, there would not be four friends in the world. Th is seems proved by the quarrels and disputes caused by the disclosures which are occasionally made.... | |
 | Blaise Pascal - Apologetics - 1878 - 190 pages
...fortune from rare auspices, and so they are generally right. LXXVI. I believe that if everybody knew what one says of the other there would not be four friends in the world ! Look at the quarrels caused by indiscreet revelations of what one and another has said ! LXXVII.... | |
 | Blaise Pascal - Apologetics - 1885 - 394 pages
...valueless. Ambitiosa recidet orimmenta. I put it down as a fact that if all men knew what each said of the other, there would not be four friends in the world. This is evident from the quarrels which arise from indiscreet reports made from time to time. Those who... | |
 | John Morley - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1887 - 72 pages
...said little ; and what he said does not make us hopeful. He saw the darker side. "If everybody knew what one says of the other, there would not be four friends left in the world." "Would you have men think well of you, then do not speak well of yourself." And... | |
 | Halkett Lord, Richard Halkett - American literature - 1888 - 572 pages
...said little, and what he said does not make us hopeful. He saw the darker side. " If everybody knew what one says of the other, there would not be four friends left in the world." "Would you have men think well of yon, then do not speak well of yourself." And... | |
 | Blaise Pascal - 1888 - 446 pages
...valueless. Ambitiosa recidet ornamenta. I put it down as a fact that if all men knew what each said ot the other, there would not be four friends in the world. This is evident from the quarrels which arise from indiscreet reports made from time to time. i Those who... | |
 | Anna Lydia Ward - Citations anglaises - 1889 - 720 pages
...Liberty of Thought and Discussion. I lay it down as a fact that, if all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world. This appears from the quarrels to which indiscreet reports occasionally give rise. 3891 Pascal: Thoughts. Ch. viii., xlii. ( Wight, Translator.... | |
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I set it down as a fact that if all men knew what each said of the other, there would not be four friends in the world. 
