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The strength of a man's virtue should not be measured by his special exertions, but by his habitual acts.
Blaise Pascal
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Blaise Pascal
Age: 39 †
Born: 1623
Born: June 19
Died: 1662
Died: August 19
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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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If you gain, you gain all if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists.
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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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Wisdom leads us back to childhood.
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Excuse me, pray. Without that excuse I would not have known there was anything amiss.
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We never do evil so effectually as when we are led to do it by a false principle of conscience.
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