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Things are always at their best in their beginning.

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
Always
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Beginning
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If man should commence by studying himself, he would see how impossible it is to go further.
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Having been unable to strengthen justice, we have justified strength.
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Rivers are highways that move on and bear us whither we wish to go.
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Great and small suffer the same mishaps.
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