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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 present is never the mark of our designs. We use both past and present as our means and instruments, but the future only as our object and aim.
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Our reason is always disappointed by the inconstancy of appearances.
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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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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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Nothing is so conformable to reason as to disavow reason.
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Thinking too little about things or thinking too much both make us obstinate and fanatical.
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There is enough light for those who only desire to see, and enough obscurity for those who have a contrary disposition
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We know then the existence and nature of the finite, because we also are finite and have extension. We know the existence of the infinite and are ignorant of its nature, because it has extension like us, but not limits like us. But we know neither the existence nor the nature of God, because he has neither extension nor limits.
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Let man then contemplate the whole of nature in her full and grand majesty... No idea approaches it. We may enlarge our conceptions beyond all imaginable space we only produce atoms in comparison with the reality of things. It is an infinite sphere, the center of which is everywhere, the circumference nowhere.
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Distraction is the only thing that consoles us for our miseries. Yet it is itself the greatest of our miseries.
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Human life is thus only an endless illusion. Men deceive and flatter each other. No one speaks of us in our presence as he does when we are gone. Society is based on mutual hypocrisy.
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Something incomprehensible is not for that reason less real.
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Apart from Jesus Christ, we do not know what is our life, nor our death, nor God, nor ourselves.
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Now, if the passions had no hold on us, a week and a hundred years would amount to the same.
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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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The property of power is to protect.
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[On vanity:] The nose of Cleopatra: if it had been shorter, the face of the earth would have changed.
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Each man is everything to himself, for with his death everything is dead for him. That is why each of us thinks he is everything to everyone. We must not judge nature by ourselves, but by its own standards.
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I cannot forgive Descartes. In all his philosophy he would have been quite willing to dispense with God. But he had to make Him give a fillip to set the world in motion beyond this, he has no further need of God.
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I bring you the gift of these four words: I believe in you.
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