Blaise Pascal Quote

We are so presumptuous that we should like to be known all over the world, even by people who will only come when we are no more. Such is our vanity that the good opinion of half a dozen of the people around us gives us pleasure and satisfaction.

Pascal Pensées: (ed. Penguin Classics, 1966) - ISBN: 9780140441710

We are so presumptuous that we should like to be known all over the world, even by people who will only come when we are no more. Such is our vanity...

We are so presumptuous that we should like to be known all over the world, even by people who will only come when we are no more. Such is our vanity...

We are so presumptuous that we should like to be known all over the world, even by people who will only come when we are no more. Such is our vanity...

We are so presumptuous that we should like to be known all over the world, even by people who will only come when we are no more. Such is our vanity...