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The last thing we decide in writing a book is what to put first.
Blaise Pascal
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Blaise Pascal
Age: 39 †
Born: 1623
Born: June 19
Died: 1662
Died: August 19
French Moralist
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Clarmont-Ferrand
Pascal
Louis de Montalte
Amos Dettonville
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Necessity, that great refuge and excuse for human frailty, breaks through all law and he is not to be accounted in fault whose crime is not the effect of choice, but force.
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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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We only consult the ear because the heart is wanting.
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Concupiscence and force are the source of all our actions concupiscence causes voluntary actions, force involuntary ones.
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If you gain, you gain all if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists.
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Each man is everything to himself, for with his death everything is dead for him. That is why each of us thinks he is everything to everyone. We must not judge nature by ourselves, but by its own standards.
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The multitude which is not brought to act as a unity, is confusion. That unity which has not its origin in the multitude is tyranny.
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It is man's natural sickness to believe that he possesses the Truth.
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All sorrow has its root in man's inability to sit quiet in a room by himself.
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All our reasoning boils down to yielding to sentiment.
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