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If men knew themselves, God would heal and pardon 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
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Clarmont-Ferrand
Pascal
Louis de Montalte
Amos Dettonville
Dettonville
Paskal Blez
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Men
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Instinct teaches us to look for happiness outside ourselves.
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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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We are not satisfied with real life we want to live some imaginary life in the eyes of other people and to seem different from what we actually are.
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Any unity which doesn't have its origin in the multitudes is tyranny.
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The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
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Do they think that they have given us great pleasure by telling us that they hold our soul to be no more than wind or smoke, and saying it moreover in tones of pride and satisfaction? Is this then something to be said gaily? Is it not on the contrary something to be said sadly, as being the saddest thing in the world?
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St. Augustine teaches us that there is in each man a Serpent, an Eve, and an Adam. Our senses and natural propensities are the Serpent the excitable desire is the Eve and reason is the Adam. Our nature tempts us perpetually criminal desire is often excited but sin is not completed till reason consents.
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Man's true nature being lost, everything becomes his nature as, his true good being lost, everything becomes his good.
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People are generally better persuaded by the reasons which they have themselves discovered than by those which have come in to the mind of others.
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Look for the truth, it wants to be found.
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Evil is easily discovered there is an infinite variety good is almost unique. But some kinds of evil are almost as difficult to discover as that which we call good and often particular evil of this class passes for good. It needs even a certain greatness of soul to attain to this, as to that which is good.
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All this visible world is but an imperceptible point in the ample bosom of nature.
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Curiosity is nothing more than vanity. More often than not we only seek knowledge to show it off.
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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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To speak freely of mathematics, I find it the highest exercise of the spirit but at the same time I know that it is so useless that I make little distinction between a man who is only a mathematician and a common artisan. Also, I call it the most beautiful profession in the world but it is only a profession.
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One has followed the other in an endless circle, for it is certain that as man's insight increases so he finds both wretchedness and greatness within himself. In a word man knows he is wretched. Thus he is wretched because he is so, but he is truly great because he knows it.
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How vain painting is-we admire the realistic depiction of objects which in their original state we don't admire at all.
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Nothing is thoroughly approved but mediocrity. The majority has established this, and it fixes its fangs on whatever gets beyond it either way.
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