"Custom creates the whole of equity, for..." - Quote by Blaise Pascal
Custom creates the whole of equity, for the simple reason that it is accepted.
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“Distraction is the only thing that consoles us for our miseries. Yet it is itself the greatest of our miseries.”
“The heart has arguments with which the logic of mind is not aquainted.”
“Human life is thus only a perpetual illusion; men deceive and flatter each other. No one speaks of us in our presence as he does of us in our absence. Human society is founded on mutual deceit; few friendships would endure if each knew what his friend said of him in his absence, although he then spoke in sincerity and without passion.”
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“Often a quite assified remark becomes sanctified by use and petrified by custom; it is then a permanency, its term of activity a geologic period.”
“The security of Society lies in custom and unconscious instinct, and the basis of the stability of Society, as a healthy organism, is the complete absence of any intelligence amongst its members.”
“Customs will often outlive the remembrance of their origin.”
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“Courage is virtue which champions the cause of right.”
“Though you cannot see, when you take one step, what will be the next, yet follow truth, justice, and plain dealing, and never fear their leading you out of [any difficult situation] in the easiest manner possible.”
“Effective action is always unjust.”