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The property of power is to protect.

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
Power
Property
Protect

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When malice has reason on its side, it looks forth bravely, and displays that reason in all its luster. When austerity and self-denial have not realized true happiness, and the soul returns to the dictates of nature, the reaction is fearfully extravagant.
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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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We sail within a vast sphere, ever drifting in uncertainty, driven from end to end. When we think to attach ourselves to any pointand to fasten to it, it wavers and leaves us and if we follow it, it eludes our grasp, slips past us, and vanishes for ever. Nothing stays for us.
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The gist is that good and evil are foreordained. What is foreordained comes necessarily to be after a prior act of divine volition...Rather, everything small and large is written and comes to be in a known and expected measure.
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Faith indeed tells what the senses do not tell, but not the contrary of what they see. It is above them and not contrary to them.
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Since we cannot know all that there is to be known about anything, we ought to know a little about everything.
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Distraction is the only thing that consoles us for our miseries. Yet it is itself the greatest of our miseries.
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If you want to be a real seeker of truth, you need to, at least once in your lifetime, doubt in, as much as it's possible, in everything.
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All of our miseries prove our greatness. They are the miseries of a dethroned monarch.
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We do not content ourselves with the life we have in ourselves and in our being we desire to live an imaginary life in the mind of others, and for this purpose we endeavor to shine. We labor unceasingly to adorn and preserve this imaginary existence and neglect the real.
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Let man then contemplate the whole of nature in her full and grand majesty... No idea approaches it. We may enlarge our conceptions beyond all imaginable space we only produce atoms in comparison with the reality of things. It is an infinite sphere, the center of which is everywhere, the circumference nowhere.
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We never do evil so effectually as when we are led to do it by a false principle of conscience.
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Our reason is always disappointed by the inconstancy of appearances.
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The great mass of people judge well of things, for they are in natural ignorance, which is man's true state.
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L'on a beau se cacher a' soi-me me, l'on aime toujours. We vainly conceal from ourselves the fact that we are always in love.
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Man lives between the infinitely large and the infinitely small.
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It is the heart which perceives God and not the reason. That is what faith is: God perceived by the heart, not by the reason.
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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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If a man is not made for God, why is he happy only in God?
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May God never abandon me.
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