Blaise Pascal Quotes
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All our life passes in this way: we seek rest by struggling against certain obstacles, and once they are overcome, rest proves intolerable because of the boredom it produces.
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We need not have the loftiest mind to understand that here is no lasting and real satisfaction, that our pleasures are only vanity, that our evils are infinite, and, lastly, that death, which threatens us every moment, must infallibly place us within a few years under the dreadful necessity of being forever either annihilated or unhappy.
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What can be seen on earth points to neither the total absence nor the obvious presence of divinity, but to the presence of a hidden God. Everything bears this mark.
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Anyone who found the secret of rejoicing when things go well without being annoyed when they go badly would have found the point.
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When intuition and logic agree, you are always right.
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Do they think that they have given us great pleasure by telling us that they hold our soul to be no more than wind or smoke, and saying it moreover in tones of pride and satisfaction? Is this then something to be said gaily? Is it not on the contrary something to be said sadly, as being the saddest thing in the world?
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However vast a man's spiritual resources, he is capable of but one great passion.
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Jurisdiction is not given for the sake of the judge, but for that of the litigant.
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Do little things as if they were great, because of the majesty of the Lord Jesus Christ who dwells in thee.
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I have spent much time in the study of the abstract sciences; but the paucity of persons with whom you can communicate on such subjects disgusted me with them. When I began to study man, I saw that these abstract sciences are not suited to him, and that in diving into them, I wandered farther from my real object than those who knew them not, and I forgave them for not having attended to these things. I expected then, however, that I should find some companions in the study of man, since it was so specifically a duty. I was in error. There are fewer students of man than of geometry.
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All evil stems from this-that we do. Know how to handle your solitude.
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Little things console us because little things afflict us.
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Voluptuousness, like justice, is blind, but that is the only resemblance between them.
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He that takes truth for his guide, and duty for his end, may safely trust to God's providence to lead him aright.
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Quelque e tendue d'esprit que l'on ait, l'on n'est capable que d'une grande passion. However vast a man's spirit, he is only capable of one great passion.
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How vain is painting, which is admired for reproducing the likeness of things whose originals are not admired.
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Those we call the ancients were really new in everything.
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For nature is an image of Grace, and visible miracles are images of the invisible.
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The mind naturally makes progress, and the will naturally clings to objects; so that for want of right objects, it will attach itself to wrong ones.
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It's not those who write the laws that have the greatest impact on society. It's those who write the songs.
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It is not in Montaigne, but in myself, that I find all that I see in him.
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Must we kill to prevent there being any wicked? This is to make both parties wicked instead of one.
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The art of subversion, of revolution, is to dislodge established customs by probing down to their origins in order to show how they lack authority and justice.
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If man made himself the first object of study, he would see how incapable he is of going further. How can a part know the whole?