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-I don’t admire an over-flowing virtue such as bravery unless I see at the same time an overflow of the opposite virtue, as with Epaminondas, who was both extremely brave and extremely kind.... One does not ascend to greatness by being at but one or the other extreme, but by touching both at once and by filling what’s between.
+I don’t admire an over-flowing virtue such as bravery unless I see at the same time an overflow of the opposite virtue, as with Epaminondas, who was both extremely brave and extremely kind.... One does not ascend to greatness by being at but one or the other extreme, but by touching both at once and by filling what’s between. <span class="source">Biaise Pascal, Pensees. Paris: Editions Gamier Freres, 1958, #353, p. 162.</span>
-Biaise Pascal, Pensees. Paris: Editions Gamier Freres, 1958, #353, p. 162
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 Ah! it is clear! To propose that iife is ’’pricipaily” this or that is supremeiy dangerous, for in an instant it wii! be ’’exciusiveiy” either this or that. Then terribie things happen.... it wouid be an easy job to exist if we couid do things uniiateraiiy. But — and here is the probiem! — to iive is to trave! at one time in every direction of the horizon; to live is to have to do with both this and that.