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Violence cannot weaken truth, and truth cannot stop violence; each only strengthens or provokes the other
Drawn from what Blaise Pascal said
What Blaise Pascal actually said
- Blaise Pascal French mathematician and philosopher (1623 to 1662)
It is a strange and tedious war, when violence attempts to vanquish truth. All the efforts of violence cannot weaken truth, and only serve to give it fresh vigor. All the lights of truth cannot arrest violence, and only serve to exasperate it.
Where this was said
↗The Provincial Letters (tr. Thomas M'Crie, 1856)gutenberg.org
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