Blaise Pascal quote: Can anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me because he lives on the other ...

Can anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of a river and his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have not quarrelled with him?

~ Blaise Pascal ~

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