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Full Idea
It is a funny sort of justice whose limits are marked by a river; true on this side of the Pyrenees, false on the other.
Gist of Idea
It is a funny sort of justice whose limits are marked by a river
Source
Blaise Pascal (Pensées [1662], 60 (294))
Book Ref
Pascal,Blaise: 'Pensées', ed/tr. Krailsheimer,A.J. [Penguin 1966], p.46
A Reaction
Pascal gives nice concise summaries of our intuitions. Legal justice may be all we can actually get, but everyone knows that what happens to someone could be 'fair' on one side of a river, and very 'unfair' on the other.