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Nothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest, without a passion, without business, without entertainment, without care.

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Blaise Pascal
Age: 39 †
Born: 1623
Born: June 19
Died: 1662
Died: August 19
French Moralist
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Physicist
Statistician
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Clarmont-Ferrand
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Louis de Montalte
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