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We know truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.

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
Writer
Clarmont-Ferrand
Pascal
Louis de Montalte
Amos Dettonville
Dettonville
Paskal Blez
Wisdom
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Nature confuses the skeptics and reason confutes the dogmatists
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For nature is an image of Grace, and visible miracles are images of the invisible.
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All this visible world is but an imperceptible point in the ample bosom of nature.
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Fashion is a tyrant from which nothing frees us. We must suit ourselves to its fantastic tastes. But being compelled to live under its foolish laws, the wise man is never the first to follow, nor the last to keep it.
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Force rules the world-not opinion but it is opinion that makes use of force.
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Nothing is so conformable to reason as to disavow reason.
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