quote · Words worth keeping
Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.
Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.
Attribution & collection notes
- Author or tradition
- Blaise Pascal
Attribution: attributed - Country attributed
- Not established
A country attribution does not establish the earliest origin. - Historical period
- c. 1642 AD · renaissance
author lifetime midpoint (1623–1662); not necessarily a composition date.
The voice behind the words.
Listed in the author section of Bartlett’s ninth-edition anthology, in the linked 1905 printing. Dates reflect that historical edition and may differ from modern scholarship.
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