“ I beg your pardon, sir,” M. Pascal said to M. de Saci, “for declaiming in this manner before you concerning Theology, instead of keeping to philosophy, which alone was my subject. I was led into it imperceptibly, and it is difficult not to enter into it no matter what truth one deals with, because it is the heart of all truth, which is clear here since it so obviously includes all those which are found in these [Stoic and Pyrrhonist] opinions.
— Pascal, Conversation with M. de Saci. Sounds like an apology Plato’s Socrates would occasionally make, except more explicit.
