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Distraction is the only thing that consoles us for our miseries. Yet it is itself the greatest of our miseries.

Blaise Pascal

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Blaise Pascal
Age: 39 †
Born: 1623
Born: June 19
Died: 1662
Died: August 19
French Moralist
Mathematician
Philosopher
Physicist
Statistician
Theologian
Writer
Clarmont-Ferrand
Pascal
Louis de Montalte
Amos Dettonville
Dettonville
Paskal Blez
Consoles
Miseries
Console
Distraction
Misery
Greatest
Thing

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