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Brave deeds are wasted when hidden.
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
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Clarmont-Ferrand
Pascal
Louis de Montalte
Amos Dettonville
Dettonville
Paskal Blez
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We know the truth not only through our reason but also through our heart. It is through the latter that we know first principles, and reason, which has nothing to do with it, tries in vain to refute them.
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In each action we must look beyond the action at our past, present, and future state, and at others whom it affects, and see the relations of all those things. And then we shall be very cautious.
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The end point of rationality is to demonstrate the limits of rationality.
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The mind has its arrangement it proceeds from principles to demonstrations. The heart has a different mode of proceeding.
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We like to be deceived.
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There are plenty of maxims in the world all that remains is to apply them.
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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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If men knew themselves, God would heal and pardon them.
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That something so obvious as the vanity of the world should be so little recognized that people find it odd and surprising to be told that it is foolish to seek greatness that is most remarkable.
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When we see an effect happen always in the same manner, we infer that it takes place by a natural necessity as, for instance, that the sun will rise to morrow but nature often deceives us, and will not submit to its own rules.
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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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There was once in man a true happiness of which there now remain to him only the mark and empty trace, which he in vain tries to fill from all his surroundings, seeking from things absent the help he does not obtain in things present.
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It is not shameful for a man to succumb to pain and it is shameful to succumb to pleasure.
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To have no time for philosophy is to be a true philosopher.
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All the good maxims which are in the world fail when applied to one's self.
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All of our miseries prove our greatness. They are the miseries of a dethroned monarch.
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Faith is a sounder guide than reason. Reason can only go so far, but faith has no limits.
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It is an appalling thing to feel all one possesses drain away.
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We do not worry about being respected in towns through which we pass. But if we are going to remain in one for a certain time, we do worry. How long does this time have to be?
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Evil is easy, and has infinite forms.
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