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There are plenty of maxims in the world all that remains is to apply them.

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
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The married should not forget that to speak of love begets love.
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To ridicule philosophy is truly philosophical. [Fr., Se moquer de la philosophie c'est vraiment philosophe.]
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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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It is the heart which perceives God and not the reason. That is what faith is: God perceived by the heart, not by the reason.
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Those we call the ancients were really new in everything.
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Wisdom leads us back to childhood.
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All of our miseries prove our greatness. They are the miseries of a dethroned monarch.
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Two similar faces, neither of which alone causes laughter, use laughter when they are together, by their resemblance.
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Since we cannot know all that there is to be known about anything, we ought to know a little about everything.
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Losses are comparative imagination only makes them of any moment.
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Man is so made that if he is told often enough that he is a fool he believes it.
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Those who are clever in imagination are far more pleased with themselves than prudent men could reasonably be.
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Few friendships would survive if each one knew what his friend says of him behind his back.
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To understand is to forgive.
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Those who do not hate their own selfishness and regard themselves as more important than the rest of the world are blind because the truth lies elsewhere
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Thus so wretched is man that he would weary even without any cause for weariness... and so frivolous is he that, though full of a thousand reasons for weariness, the least thing, such as playing billiards or hitting a ball, is sufficient enough to amuse him.
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