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Our achievements of today are but the sum total of our thoughts of yesterday.

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
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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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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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Imagination decides everything.
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L'on a beau se cacher a' soi-me me, l'on aime toujours. We vainly conceal from ourselves the fact that we are always in love.
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How shall one who is so weak in his childhood become really strong when he grows older? We only change our fancies.
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Symmetry is what we see at a glance based on the fact that there is no reason for any difference.
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All men's miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.
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Making fun of philosophy is really philosophising.
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In each action we must look beyond the action at our past, present, and future state, and at others whom it affects, and see the relations of all those things. And then we shall be very cautious.
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Le silence e ternel de ces espaces infinis m'effraie. The eternal silence of these infinite spaces fills me with dread.
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Truly it is an evil to be full of faults but it is a still greater evil to be full of them and to be unwilling to recognize them, since that is to add the further fault of a voluntary illusion.
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The last act is bloody, however pleasant all the rest of the play is: a little earth is thrown at last upon our head, and that is the end forever.
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Passion cannot be beautiful without excess one either loves too much or not enough.
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Perfect clarity would profit the intellect but damage the will.
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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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Let man reawake and consider what he is compared with the reality of things regard himself lost in this remote corner of Nature and from the tiny cell where he lodges, to wit the Universe, weigh at their true worth earth, kingdoms, towns, himself. What is a man face to face with infinity?
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The more intelligence one has, the more people one finds original. Commonplace people see no difference between men.
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If you want to be a real seeker of truth, you need to, at least once in your lifetime, doubt in, as much as it's possible, in everything.
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If there were only one religion, God would indeed be manifest.
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The statements of atheists ought to be perfectly clear of doubt. Now it is not perfectly clear that the soul is material.
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