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Chance gives rise to thoughts, and chance removes them no art can keep or acquire them.
Blaise Pascal
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Blaise Pascal
Age: 39 †
Born: 1623
Born: June 19
Died: 1662
Died: August 19
French Moralist
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Clarmont-Ferrand
Pascal
Louis de Montalte
Amos Dettonville
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Seeing too much to deny and too little to be sure, I am in a state to be pitied.
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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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Kind words do not cost much. They never blister the tongue or lips. They make other people good-natured. They also produce their own image on men's souls, and a beautiful image it is.
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