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Part I Tell You, "you Would Soon Have Faith, If You Renounced Pleasure."

Pascal's Pensées · Blaise Pascal — chapter 5 of 16 · ~70 words · public domain

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Now, it is for you to begin. If I could, I would give you faith. I cannot do so, nor therefore test the truth of what you say. But you can well renounce pleasure, and test whether what I say is true.

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Order.--I would have far more fear of being mistaken, and of finding that the Christian religion was true, than of not being mistaken in believing it true.

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