Blaise Pascal Quotes
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Thinking too little about things or thinking too much both make us obstinate and fanatical.
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Instead of complaining that God had hidden himself, you will give Him thanks for having revealed so much of Himself.
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If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists.
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There are people who lie simply for the sake of lying.
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It is not good to be too free. It is not good to have all one wants.
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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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Man's greatness lies in his power of thought.
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No soul of high estate can take pleasure in slander. It betrays a weakness.
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For nature is an image of Grace, and visible miracles are images of the invisible.
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Justice is as much a matter of fashion as charm is.
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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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All the troubles of life come upon us because we refuse to sit quietly for a while each day in our rooms.
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Equality of possessions is no doubt right, but, as men could not make might obey right, they have made right obey might.
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Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.
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...for the truth is always older than all the opinions men have held regarding it; and one should be ignoring the nature of truth if we imagined that the truth began at the time it came to be known.
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Let each of us examine his thoughts.
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Vanity of science. Knowledge of physical science will not console me for ignorance of morality in time of affliction, but knowledge of morality will always console me for ignorance of physical science.
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Those honor nature well, who teach that she can speak on everything...
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The God of the infinite is the God of the infinitesimal.
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La chose la plus importante a' toute la vie est le choix du me tier: le hasard en dispose. The most important thing in life is to choose a profession: chance arranges for that.
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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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Montaigne is wrong in declaring that custom ought to be followed simply because it is custom, and not because it is reasonable or just.
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There is a certain standard of grace and beauty which consists in a certain relation between our nature, such as it is, weak or strong, and the thing which pleases us. Whatever is formed according to this standard pleases us, be it house, song, discourse, verse, prose, woman, birds, rivers, trees, room, dress, and so on. Whatever is not made according to this standard displeases those who have good taste.
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Who can doubt that we exist only to love? Disguise it, in fact, as we will, we love without intermission... We live not a moment exempt from its influence.