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We are usually convinced more easily by reasons we have found ourselves than by those which have occurred to others.
Blaise Pascal
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Blaise Pascal
Age: 39 †
Born: 1623
Born: June 19
Died: 1662
Died: August 19
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The principles of pleasure are not firm and stable. They are different in all mankind, and variable in every particular with such a diversity that there is no man more different from another than from himself at different times.
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We make an idol of truth itself for truth apart from charity is not God, but His image and idol, which we must neither love nor worship.
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