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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
Writer
Clarmont-Ferrand
Pascal
Louis de Montalte
Amos Dettonville
Dettonville
Paskal Blez
Painting
Thought
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One must know oneself. If this does not serve to discover truth, it at least serves as a rule of life and there is nothing better.
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All evil stems from this-that we do. Know how to handle your solitude.
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Brave deeds are wasted when hidden.
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I would have far more fear of being mistaken, and of finding that the Christian religion was true, than of not being mistaken in believing it true.
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All men naturally hate each other. We have used concupiscence as best we can to make it serve the common good, but this is mere sham and a false image of charity, for essentially it is just hate.
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If you do not love too much, you do not love enough.
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Excuse me, pray. Without that excuse I would not have known there was anything amiss.
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All human evil comes from a single cause, man's inability to sit still in a room.
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Cold words freeze people, and hot words scorch them, and bitter words make them bitter, and wrathful words make them wrathful. Kind words also produce their own image on men's souls and a beautiful image it is. They smooth, and quiet, and comfort the hearer.
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Imagination cannot make fools wise, but it makes them happy, as against reason, which only makes its friends wretched: one covers them with glory, the other with shame.
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The imagination enlarges little objects so as to fill our souls with a fantastic estimate and, with rash insolence, it belittles the great to its own measure, as when talking of God.
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Continuous eloquence wearies. Grandeur must be abandoned to be appreciated. Continuity in everything is unpleasant. Cold is agreeable, that we may get warm.
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All our reasoning boils down to yielding to sentiment.
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The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
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Human life is thus only a perpetual illusion men deceive and flatter each other. No one speaks of us in our presence as he does of us in our absence. Human society is founded on mutual deceit few friendships would endure if each knew what his friend said of him in his absence, although he then spoke in sincerity and without passion.
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The heart has arguments with which the logic of mind is not aquainted.
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God has given us evidence sufficiently clear to convince those with an open heart and mind.
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Mediocrity makes the most of its native possessions.
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I maintain that, if everyone knew what others said about him, there would not be four friends in the world.
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Nothing is surer than that the people will be weak.
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