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Blaise Pascal

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La vraie éloquence se moque de l'éloquence, la vraie morale se moque de la morale.
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True morality makes fun of morality.
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True eloquence makes light of eloquence, true morality makes light of morality; that is to say, the morality of the judgment, which has no rules, makes light of the morality of the intellect. 4 [Variant Translation]

 
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