Blaise Pascal, Pensées (1669), No. 74.

How vain painting is, exciting admiration by its resemblance to things of which we do not admire the originals.

— Blaise Pascal on Admiration

What It Means

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About Blaise Pascal

Blaise Pascal (19 June 1623 – 19 August 1662) was a French mathematician, logician, physicist and theologian.