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Few men speak humbly of humility, chastely of chastity, skeptically of skepticism.
Blaise Pascal
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Blaise Pascal
Age: 39 †
Born: 1623
Born: June 19
Died: 1662
Died: August 19
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When I have occasionally set myself to consider the different distractions of men, the pains and perils to which they expose themselves I have discovered that all the unhappiness of men arises from one single fact, that they cannot stay quietly in their own chamber.
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Instead of complaining that God had hidden himself, you will give Him thanks for having revealed so much of Himself.
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Thought makes the whole dignity of man therefore endeavor to think well, that is the only morality.
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Our true dignity consists — in thought. Thence we must derive our elevation, not from space or duration. Let us endeavor then to think well this is the principle of morals.
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To deny, to believe, and to doubt well, are to a man what the race is to a horse.
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To ridicule philosophy is really to philosophize.
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The property of power is to protect.
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