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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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All sorrow has its root in man's inability to sit quiet in a room by himself.
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Reason's last step is to acknowledge that there are infinitely many things beyond it.
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When we read too fast or too slowly, we understand nothing.
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What part of us feels pleasure? Is it our hand, our arm, our flesh, or our blood? It must obviously be something immaterial.
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We are so presumptuous that we should like to be known all over the world, even by people who will only come when we are no more. Such is our vanity that the good opinion of half a dozen of the people around us gives us pleasure and satisfaction.
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The weakness of human reason appears more evidently in those who know it not than in those who know it.
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Those who are clever in imagination are far more pleased with themselves than prudent men could reasonably be.
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Discourses on humility are a source of pride in the vain and of humility in the humble. So those on scepticism cause believers to affirm. Few men speak humbly of humility, chastely of chastity, few doubtingly of scepticism.
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If we examine our thoughts, we shall find them always occupied with the past or the future.
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Man's true nature being lost, everything becomes his nature as, his true good being lost, everything becomes his good.
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The last thing we decide in writing a book is what to put first.
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When a soldier complains of his hard life (or a labourer, etc.) try giving him nothing to do.
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Christianity is strange. It bids man recognise that he is vile, even abominable, and bids him desire to be like God. Without such a counterpoise, this dignity would make him horribly vain, or this humiliation would make him terribly abject.
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True eloquence makes light of eloquence. True morality makes light of morality.
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It is the heart which perceives God and not the reason. That is what faith is: God perceived by the heart, not by the reason.
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We are fools to depend upon the society of our fellow-men. Wretched as we are, powerless as we are, they will not aid us we shall die alone.
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The mind has its arrangement it proceeds from principles to demonstrations. The heart has a different mode of proceeding.
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Nothing is thoroughly approved but mediocrity. The majority has established this, and it fixes its fangs on whatever gets beyond it either way.
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To find recreation in amusement is not happiness.
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Good deeds, when concealed, are the most admirable.
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