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Ridicule is in some cases an appropriate and just way to reclaim people from their errors

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  1. Blaise Pascal French mathematician and philosopher (1623 to 1662)
    Thus you see, fathers, that ridicule is, in some cases, a very appropriate means of reclaiming men from their errors, and that it is accordingly an act of justice, because, as Jeremiah says, “the actions of those that err are worthy of derision, because of their vanity—vana sunt et risu digna.”

    Where this was said

    ↗The Provincial Letters (tr. Thomas M'Crie, 1856)gutenberg.org

    18 Aug 1656

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