Quotes By Blaise Pascal
Nature is an infinite sphere of which the center is everywhere and the circumference nowhere.
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The immortality of the soul is a matter which is of so great consequence to us and which touches us so profoundly that we must have lost all feeling to be indifferent about it.
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Nothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest, without a passion, without business, without entertainment, without care.
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There are some who speak well and write badly. For the place and the audience warm them, and draw from their minds more than they think of without that warmth.
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Men are so necessarily mad, that not to be mad would amount to another form of madness.
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Between us and heaven or hell there is only life, which is the frailest thing in the world.
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When we see a natural style, we are astonished and charmed; for we expected to see an author, and we find a person.
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Time heals griefs and quarrels, for we change and are no longer the same persons. Neither the offender nor the offended are any more themselves.
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Concupiscence and force are the source of all our actions; concupiscence causes voluntary actions, force involuntary ones.
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If we must not act save on a certainty, we ought not to act on religion, for it is not certain. But how many things we do on an uncertainty, sea voyages, battles!
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The consciousness of the falsity of present pleasures, and the ignorance of the vanity of absent pleasures, cause inconstancy.
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Faith indeed tells what the senses do not tell, but not the contrary of what they see. It is above them and not contrary to them.
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Too much and too little wine. Give him none, he cannot find truth; give him too much, the same.
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Faith certainly tells us what the senses do not, but not the contrary of what they see; it is above, not against them.
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Nothing is as approved as mediocrity, the majority has established it and it fixes it fangs on whatever gets beyond it either way.
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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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Few friendships would survive if each one knew what his friend says of him behind his back.
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The greater intellect one has, the more originality one finds in men. Ordinary persons find no difference between men.
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