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Eloquence is a painting of the thoughts.

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
Eloquence
Thoughts
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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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Fashion is a tyrant from which nothing frees us. We must suit ourselves to its fantastic tastes. But being compelled to live under its foolish laws, the wise man is never the first to follow, nor the last to keep it.
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When we read too fast or too slowly, we understand nothing.
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It is not certain that everything is uncertain.
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To ridicule philosophy is really to philosophize.
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The war existing between the senses and reason.
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Death is easier to bear without thinking of it, than the thought of death without peril.
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The two principles of truth, reason and senses, are not only both not genuine, but are engaged in mutual deception. The senses deceive reason through false appearances, and the senses are disturbed by passions, which produce false impressions.
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We make an idol of truth itself for truth apart from charity is not God, but His image and idol, which we must neither love nor worship.
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Without the knowledge of our wretchedness, the knowledge of God creates pride. With it, the knowledge of God creates despair. The knowledge of Christ offers a third way, because in him we find both God and our wretchedness.
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I can well conceive a man without hands, feet, head. But I cannot conceive man without thought he would be a stone or a brute.
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Vanity is so secure in the heart of man that everyone wants to be admired: even I who write this, and you who read this.
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Thus so wretched is man that he would weary even without any cause for weariness... and so frivolous is he that, though full of a thousand reasons for weariness, the least thing, such as playing billiards or hitting a ball, is sufficient enough to amuse him.
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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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The last thing we decide in writing a book is what to put first.
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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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Those great efforts of intellect, upon which the mind sometimes touches, are such that it cannot maintain itself there. It only leaps to them, not as upon a throne, forever, but merely for an instant.
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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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All men's miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.
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