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Pensees 


by Blaise Pascal (1623-62), translated by W. F. Trotter 


Pascal’s Pensées (Thoughts) is widely considered to be a masterpiece, and 
a landmark in French prose. When commenting on one particular section 
(Thought #72), Sainte-Beuve praised it as the finest pages in the French 
language. Will Durant, in his 11-volume The Story of Civilization series, 
hailed it as “the most eloquent book in French prose.” In Pensées, Pascal 
surveys several philosophical paradoxes: infinity and nothing, faith and 
reason, soul and matter, death and life, meaning and vanity—seemingly 


arriving at no definitive conclusions besides humility, ignorance, and grace. 


Rolling these into one, he develops “Pascal’s Wager”. (Wikipedia) 


Total running time: 11:15:17 


Read by dexter 
Latin passages read by Leni 


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Cover design by Kathryn Delaney in the public domain 





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