Les Pensées 2

Futility and Despair
Futility and Despair fromLes Pensées by Blaise Pascal, Limited Editions Club, 1971.

An illustration from Les Pensées by Blaise Pascal. Translated by Martin Turnell. Illustrated by Ismar David. Typography by Charles E. Scaggs. Bloomfield, CT: Printed for the members of the Limited Editions Club, 1971. xix, 184 p., 30 cm.

II. FUTILITY AND DESPAIR

“The only thing that consoles us for our misery is distraction, and yet it is the greatest of our miseries. For it is mainly responsible for preventing us from thinking about ourselves and for our gradual ruin.” —Pensée 128