"Voluptuousness, like justice, is blind, but that..." - Quote by Blaise Pascal
Voluptuousness, like justice, is blind, but that is the only resemblance between them.
More by Blaise Pascal
“There are plenty of maxims in the world; all that remains is to apply them.”
“Discourses on humility are a source of pride in the vain and of humility in the humble.”
“For after all what is man in nature? A nothing in relation to infinity, all in relation to nothing, a central point between nothing and all and infinitely far from understanding either. The ends of things and their beginnings are impregnably concealed from him in an impenetrable secret. He is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness out of which he was drawn and the infinite in which he is engulfed.”
More on Justice
“If I have unjustly wrested a plank from a drowning man, I must restore it to him though I drown myself.”
“Worthy of honor is he who does no injustice, and more than twofold honor, if he not only does no injustice himself, but hinders others from doing any.”
“The law that will work is merely the summing up in legislative form of the moral judgment that the community has already reached.”