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Man's grandeur is that he knows himself to be miserable.
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
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Clarmont-Ferrand
Pascal
Louis de Montalte
Amos Dettonville
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Paskal Blez
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All of our miseries prove our greatness. They are the miseries of a dethroned monarch.
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Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and sees distinctly what it loves.
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Pride counterbalances all our miseries, for it either hides them, or, if it discloses them, boasts of that disclosure. Pride has such a thorough possession of us, even in the midst of our miseries and faults, that we are prepared to sacrifice life with joy, if it may but be talked of.
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One must know oneself. If this does not serve to discover truth, it at least serves as a rule of life and there is nothing better.
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Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.
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If there were only one religion, God would indeed be manifest.
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Those are weaklings who know the truth and uphold it as long as it suits their purpose, and then abandon it.
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Muhammad established a religion by putting his enemies to death Jesus Christ by commanding his followers to lay down their lives.
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Nothing is good but mediocrity. The majority has settled that, and finds fault with him who escapes it at whichever end... To leave the mean is to abandon humanity.
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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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What a chimaera then is man, what a novelty, what a monster, what chaos, what a subject of contradiction, what a prodigy! Judge of all things, yet an imbecile earthworm depository of truth, yet a sewer of uncertainty and error pride and refuse of the universe. Who shall resolve this tangle?
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Since we cannot be universal and know all that is to be known of everything, we ought to know a little about everything. For it is far better to know something about everything than to know all about one thing. This universality is the best. If we can have both, still better but if we must choose, we ought to choose the former.
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We know truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.
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If it is an extraordinary blindness to live without investigating what we are, it is a terrible one to live an evil life, while believing in God
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Nature confuses the skeptics and reason confutes the dogmatists
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