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Quotation from Pensees by Blaise Pascal
“She makes men happy and sad, healthy and sick, rich and poor”
Pensees, Fragment 82, Section II, trans. W. F. Trotter (1908)
Pascal attributes to imagination the power to produce health and sickness, an early recognition of what would later be called psychosomatic and placebo effects.
Citation: "She makes men happy and sad, healthy and sick, rich and poor" — Blaise Pascal, Pensees, Fragment 82, Section II, trans. W. F. Trotter (1908). (id pensees-q2)
Portrait: Blaise Pascal (1623-1672), unknown; a copy of the painting of François II Quesnel, which was made for Gérard Edelinck en 1691 [réf. nécessaire] ., Public domain.
