Can anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me

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, quoted by Tolstoy in Bethink Yourselves

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