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Silence. All human unhappiness comes from not knowing how to stay quietly in a room.

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
Humans
Room
Stay
Rooms
Silence
Knowing
Happiness
Comes
Quietly
Human
Unhappiness

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