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Chess is the gymnasium of the mind.
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
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Clarmont-Ferrand
Pascal
Louis de Montalte
Amos Dettonville
Dettonville
Paskal Blez
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Chess
Mind
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Man's greatness is great in that he knows himself wretched. A tree does not know itself wretched. It is then being wretched to know oneself wretched but it is being great to know that one is wretched.
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The majority is the best way, because it is visible, and has strength to make itself obeyed. Yet it is the opinion of the least able.
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No soul of high estate can take pleasure in slander. It betrays a weakness.
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The method of not erring is sought by all the world. The logicians profess to guide it, the geometricians alone attain it, and apart from science, and the imitations of it, there are no true demonstrations.
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Discourses on humility are a source of pride in the vain and of humility in the humble. So those on scepticism cause believers to affirm. Few men speak humbly of humility, chastely of chastity, few doubtingly of scepticism.
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If men knew themselves, God would heal and pardon them.
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All mankind's troubles are caused by one single thing, which is their inability to sit quietly.
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People are generally better persuaded by the reasons which they have themselves discovered than by those which have come in to the mind of others.
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Nothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest, without a passion, without business, without entertainment, without care.
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When we read too fast or too slowly, we understand nothing.
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The secrets of nature are concealed her agency is perpetual, but we do not always discover its effects time reveals them from age to age and although she is always the same in herself, she is not always equally well known.
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I should not be a Christian but for the miracles.
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