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Two things control men's nature, instinct and experience.
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
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Clarmont-Ferrand
Pascal
Louis de Montalte
Amos Dettonville
Dettonville
Paskal Blez
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If we regulate our conduct according to our own convictions, we may safely disregard the praise or censure of others.
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The secrets of nature are concealed her agency is perpetual, but we do not always discover its effects time reveals them from age to age and although she is always the same in herself, she is not always equally well known.
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Not the zeal alone of those who seek Him proves God, but the blindness of those who seek Him not.
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Excuse me, pray. Without that excuse I would not have known there was anything amiss.
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The finite is annihilated in the presence of the infinite, and becomes a pure nothing. So our spirit before God, so our justice before divine justice.
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Our achievements of today are but the sum total of our thoughts of yesterday.
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It is an appalling thing to feel all one possesses drain away.
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One has followed the other in an endless circle, for it is certain that as man's insight increases so he finds both wretchedness and greatness within himself. In a word man knows he is wretched. Thus he is wretched because he is so, but he is truly great because he knows it.
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Man lives between the infinitely large and the infinitely small.
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Ugly deeds are most estimable when hidden.
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All man's troubles come from not knowing how to sit still in one room.
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Few men speak humbly of humility, chastely of chastity, skeptically of skepticism.
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The authority of reason is far more imperious than that of a master for he who disobeys the one is unhappy, but he who disobeys the other is a fool.
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Silence. All human unhappiness comes from not knowing how to stay quietly in a room.
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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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Mankind suffers from two excesses: to exclude reason, and to live by nothing but reason.
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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 not satisfied with real life we want to live some imaginary life in the eyes of other people and to seem different from what we actually are.
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Faith is a sounder guide than reason. Reason can only go so far, but faith has no limits.
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There was once in man a true happiness of which there now remain to him only the mark and empty trace, which he in vain tries to fill from all his surroundings, seeking from things absent the help he does not obtain in things present.
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