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Meet the minds.

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1 author names match this search. Names and uncertain attributions are preserved as recorded.

Later painted likeness, circa 1690Unknown artist, after François II Quesnel · Public domain

Blaise Pascal

Pascal contrasts physical fragility with the dignity of thought and uses reading pace to illustrate a mean between extremes. These fragments belong to the Pensées body, separate from the edition’s later introduction.

1623 AD – 1662 AD · 232 collected ↗