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Blaise Pascal Inspirational Quotes (411)

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Justice and power must be brought together, so that whatever is just may be powerful, and whatever is powerful may be just.
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Continued eloquence is wearisome.
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The principles of pleasure are not firm and stable. They are different in all mankind, and variable in every particular with such a diversity that there is no man more different from another than from himself at different times.
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Men seek rest in a struggle against difficulties and when they have conquered these, rest becomes insufferable.
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Those are weaklings who know the truth and uphold it as long as it suits their purpose, and then abandon it.
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What matters it that man should have a little more knowledge of the universe? If he has it, he gets little higher. Is he not always infinitely removed from the end, and is not the duration of our life equally removed from eternity, even if it lasts ten years longer?
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E? loquence quipersuade par douceur, non par empire, en tyran, non en roi. Eloquence should persuade gently, not by force or like a tyrant or king.
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Two things control men's nature, instinct and experience.
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For nature is an image of Grace, and visible miracles are images of the invisible.
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The more intelligent a man is, the more originality he discovers in others.
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Il n'y a que deux sortes d'hommes: les uns justes, qui se croient pe cheurs les autres pe cheurs, qui se croient justes. There are only two types of people: the virtuous who believe themselves to be sinners and the sinners who believe themselves to be virtuous.
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Not the zeal alone of those who seek Him proves God, but the blindness of those who seek Him not.
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Thought makes the whole dignity of man therefore endeavor to think well, that is the only morality.
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The mind must not be forced artificial and constrained manners fill it with foolish presumption, through unnatural elevation and vain and ridiculous inflation, instead of solid and vigorous nutriment.
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That something so obvious as the vanity of the world should be so little recognized that people find it odd and surprising to be told that it is foolish to seek greatness that is most remarkable.
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When we wish to correct with advantage, and to show another that he errs, we must notice from what side he views the matter, for on that side it is usually true.
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Not only do we know God by Jesus Christ alone, but we know ourselves only by Jesus Christ. We know life and death only through Jesus Christ. Apart from Jesus Christ, we do not know what is our life, nor our death, nor God, nor ourselves.
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We are not satisfied with real life we want to live some imaginary life in the eyes of other people and to seem different from what we actually are.
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It is not shameful for a man to succumb to pain and it is shameful to succumb to pleasure.
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The parts of the universe ... all are connected with each other in such a way that I think it to be impossible to understand any one without the whole.
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The state of man is inconstancy, ennui, anxiety.
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It is right that what is just should be obeyed. It is necessary that what is strongest should be obeyed.
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Law, without force, is impotent.
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Mediocrity makes the most of its native possessions.
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