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When some passion or effect is described in a natural style, we find within ourselves the truth of what we hear, without knowing it was there.

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Blaise Pascal
Age: 39 †
Born: 1623
Born: June 19
Died: 1662
Died: August 19
French Moralist
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All of our miseries prove our greatness. They are the miseries of a dethroned monarch.
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Man is nothing but insincerity, falsehood, and hypocrisy, both in regard to himself and in regard to others. He does not wish that he should be told the truth, he shuns saying it to others and all these moods, so inconsistent with justice and reason, have their roots in his heart.
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