"'A warlike people who think life is not worth living if one cannot bear arms' (Livy) They prefer death to peace, others prefer death to war.
Any opinion can be preferred to life, which it seems so natural to love dearly." (Pascal 29/156)

"We do not choose as a captain of the ship the most highly born of those aboard." (Pascal 30/320)

"Of true justice. We no longer have any. If we had we should not accept it as a rule of justice that we should follow the customs of one's country." (Pascal 86/297)

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