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All men seek happiness. This is without exception. Whatever different means they employ, they all tend to this end. The cause of some going to war, and of others avoiding it, is the same desire in both, attended with

All men seek happiness. This is without exception. Whatever different means they employ, they all tend to this end. The cause of some going to war, and of others avoiding it, is the same desire in both, attended with different views. The will never takes the least step but to this object. This is the motive of every action of every man, even of those who hang themselves.

Blaise Pascal
Happiness, War, Mean
Blaise Pascal (1959). “Pascal's Pensées: Selections”, p.114, Prabhat Prakashan

We must kill them in war, just because they live beyond the river. If they lived on this side, we would be called murderers.

Blaise Pascal
Memorial Day, War, Rivers

The war existing between the senses and reason.

Blaise Pascal
War, Conflict, Reason
Blaise Pascal (2013). “Pensées”, p.27, Courier Corporation

Civil wars are the greatest of evils. They are inevitable, if we wish to reward merit, for all will say that they are meritorious.

Blaise Pascal
War, Evil, Wish
Blaise Pascal, Henry Rogers, Victor Cousin, Charles Louandre (1859). “The Thoughts, Letters and Opuscules of Blaise Pascal”, p.203

On the occasions when I have pondered over men's various activities, the dangers and worries they are exposed to at Court or at war, from which so many quarrels, passions, risky, often ill-conceived actions and so on are born, I have often said that man's unhappiness springs from one thing alone, his incapacity to stay quietly in one room.

Blaise Pascal
Spring, War, Passion
"Pensées and Other Writings".

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