| When we see a natural style we are quite amazed and delighted, because we expected to see an author and find a man. |
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- Blaise Pascal |
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| There are truths on this side of the Pyranees, which are falsehoods on the other. |
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- Blaise Pascal |
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| Thus so wretched is man that he would weary even without any cause for weariness... and so frivolous is he that, though full of a thousand reasons for weariness, the least thing, such as playing billiards or hitting a ball, is sufficient enough to amuse him. |
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- Blaise Pascal |
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| The eternal silence of these infinite spaces fills me with dread. |
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- Blaise Pascal |
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| The strength of a man's virtue should not be measured by his special exertions, but by his habitual acts. |
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- Blaise Pascal |
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| 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? |
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- Blaise Pascal |
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| I lay it down as a fact that if all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world. |
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- Blaise Pascal |
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| Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too; this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and sees distinctly what it loves. |
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- Blaise Pascal |
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| The heart has its reasons that reason knows nothing of. |
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- Blaise Pascal |
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| Curiosity is only vanity. Most frequently we wish not to know, but to talk. We would not take a sea voyage for the sole pleasure of seeing without hope of ever telling. |
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- Blaise Pascal |
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| To ridicule philosophy is really to philosophize. |
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- Blaise Pascal |
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| Men never do evil so thoroughly and cheerfully as when they do it for conscience sake. |
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- Blaise Pascal |
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| I have discovered that all human evil comes from this, man's being unable to sit still in a room. |
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- Blaise Pascal |
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| Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from a religious conviction. |
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- Blaise Pascal |
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| In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don't. |
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- Blaise Pascal |
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| All man's troubles come from not knowing how to sit still in one room. |
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- Blaise Pascal |
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