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Nothing is so conformable to reason as to disavow reason.
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
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Clarmont-Ferrand
Pascal
Louis de Montalte
Amos Dettonville
Dettonville
Paskal Blez
Disavow
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Nothing
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Great and small suffer the same mishaps.
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(Man,) the glory and the scandal of the universe.
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A jester, a bad character.
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