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Quotation from Pensees by Blaise Pascal
“Nothing is so insufferable to man as to be completely at rest, without passions, without business, without diversion, without study”
Pensees, Fragment 131, Section II, trans. W. F. Trotter (1908)
The weariness (ennui) fragment, which goes on to list the gloom, sadness and despair that rise from the heart in idleness.
Citation: "Nothing is so insufferable to man as to be completely at rest, without passions, without business, without diversion, without study" — Blaise Pascal, Pensees, Fragment 131, Section II, trans. W. F. Trotter (1908). (id pensees-q6)
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.
