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The only shame is to have none.

Blaise Pascal

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Blaise Pascal
Age: 39 †
Born: 1623
Born: June 19
Died: 1662
Died: August 19
French Moralist
Mathematician
Philosopher
Physicist
Statistician
Theologian
Writer
Clarmont-Ferrand
Pascal
Louis de Montalte
Amos Dettonville
Dettonville
Paskal Blez
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The last function of reason is to recognize that there are an infinity of things which surpass it.
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Our imagination so magnifies this present existence, by the power of continual reflection on it, and so attenuates eternity, by not thinking of it at all, that we reduce an eternity to nothingness, and expand a mere nothing to an eternity and this habit is so inveterately rooted in us that all the force of reason cannot induce us to lay it aside.
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When some passion or effect is described in a natural style, we find within ourselves the truth of what we hear, without knowing it was there.
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And is it not obvious that, just as it is a crime to disturb the peace when truth reigns, it is also a crime to remain at peace when the truth is being destroyed?
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The Church limits her sacramental services to the faithful. Christ gave Himself upon the cross a ransom for all.
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He who cannot believe is cursed, for he reveals by his unbelief that God has not chosen to give him grace.
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If magistrates had true justice, and if physicians had the true art of healing, they would have no occasion for square caps the majesty of these sciences would itself be venerable enough.
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Le moi est ha|«s sable. The self is hateful.
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Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.
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Passion cannot be beautiful without excess one either loves too much or not enough.
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We do not rest satisfied with the present.... So imprudent we are that we wander in the times which are not ours and do not thinkof the only one which belongs to us and so idle are we that we dream of those times which are no more and thoughtlessly overlook that which alone exists. For the present is generally painful to us.
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People are generally better persuaded by the reasons which they have themselves discovered than by those which have come in to the mind of others.
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If you believe in God you are at no disadvantage in this life, and at considerable advantage in the next. If you do not believe, but find in the next that there was a next, you are most unfortunate!
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All the good maxims which are in the world fail when applied to one's self.
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As men are not able to fight against death, misery, ignorance, they have taken it into their heads, in order to be happy, not to think of them at all.
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It is your own assent to yourself, and the constant voice of your own reason, and not of others, that should make you believe.
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Ugly deeds are most estimable when hidden.
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Nothing is more dastardly than to act with bravado toward God.
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Nature, which alone is good, is wholly familiar and common.
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The end point of rationality is to demonstrate the limits of rationality.
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