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To ridicule philosophy is really to philosophize.
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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Desire and force between them are responsible for all our actions desire causes our voluntary acts, force our involuntary.
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The last act is bloody, however pleasant all the rest of the play is: a little earth is thrown at last upon our head, and that is the end forever.
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I maintain that, if everyone knew what others said about him, there would not be four friends in the world.
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Now, if the passions had no hold on us, a week and a hundred years would amount to the same.
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Brave deeds are wasted when hidden.
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If man were happy, he would be the more so, the less he was diverted, like the saints and God.
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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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Without [diversion] we would be in a state of weariness, and this weariness would spur us on to seek a more solid means of escaping from it. But diversion amuses us, and leads us unconsciously to death.
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Justice is what is established and thus all our established laws will necessarily be regarded as just without examination, since they are established.
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Belief is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved, what harm will come to you if you gamble on its truth and it proves false? If you gain, you gain all if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists.
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If men knew themselves, God would heal and pardon them.
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It is not good to be too free. It is not good to have all one wants.
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