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Quotation from Pensees by Blaise Pascal
“Cleopatra's nose: had it been shorter, the whole aspect of the world would have been altered”
Pensees, Fragment 162, Section II, trans. W. F. Trotter (1908)
On the trivial cause and enormous effects of love, part of Pascal's catalogue of human vanity.
Citation: "Cleopatra's nose: had it been shorter, the whole aspect of the world would have been altered" — Blaise Pascal, Pensees, Fragment 162, Section II, trans. W. F. Trotter (1908). (id pensees-q8)
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.
