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The last thing we decide in writing a book is what to put first.

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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
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You gave me health that I might serve you and so often I failed to use my good health in your service. Now you send me sickness in order to correct me Grant that, having ignored the things of spirit when my body was vigorous, I may now enjoy spiritual sweetness while my body groans with pain.
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Seeing too much to deny and too little to be sure, I am in a state to be pitied.
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When intuition and logic agree, you are always right.
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Desire and force between them are responsible for all our actions desire causes our voluntary acts, force our involuntary.
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All this visible world is but an imperceptible point in the ample bosom of nature.
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All the unhappiness of men arises from one single fact, that they cannot stay quietly in their own chamber.
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Nature is an infinite sphere of which the center is everywhere and the circumference nowhere.
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By thought I embrace the universe.
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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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All our life passes in this way: we seek rest by struggling against certain obstacles, and once they are overcome, rest proves intolerable because of the boredom it produces.
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Do little things as if they were great, because of the majesty of the Lord Jesus Christ who dwells in thee.
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Justice is what is established and thus all our established laws will necessarily be regarded as just without examination, since they are established.
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Without the knowledge of our wretchedness, the knowledge of God creates pride. With it, the knowledge of God creates despair. The knowledge of Christ offers a third way, because in him we find both God and our wretchedness.
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It is not certain that everything is uncertain.
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All men's miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.
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There is a lot of difference between tempting and leading into error. God tempts but does not lead into error. To tempt is to provide opportunities for us to do certain things if we do not love God, but putting us under no necessity to do so. To lead into error is to compel a man necessarily to conclude and follow a falsehood.
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Bless yourself with holy water, have Masses said, and so on by a simple and natural process this will make you believe, and will dull you - will quiet your proudly critical intellect.
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The last advance of reason is to recognize that it is surpassed by innumerable things it is feeble if it cannot realize that.
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There are two equally dangerous extremes-to shut reason out, and to let nothing else in.
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We are so presumptuous that we wish to be known to all the world, even to those who come after us and we are so vain that the esteem of five or six persons immediately around us is enough to amuse and satisfy us.
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