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Instinct teaches us to look for happiness outside ourselves.
Blaise Pascal
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Blaise Pascal
Age: 39 †
Born: 1623
Born: June 19
Died: 1662
Died: August 19
French Moralist
Mathematician
Philosopher
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Clarmont-Ferrand
Pascal
Louis de Montalte
Amos Dettonville
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Paskal Blez
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True eloquence scorns eloquence.
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It is an appalling thing to feel all one possesses drain away.
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Mankind suffers from two excesses: to exclude reason, and to live by nothing but reason.
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The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing. We feel it in a thousand things. I say that the heart naturally loves the Universal Being, and naturally loves itself and it gives itself to one or the other, and hardens itself against one or the other, as it chooses...it is the heart that feels God, not the reason this is faith.
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Kind words produce their own image in men's souls and a beautiful image it is. They soothe and quiet and comfort the hearer. They shame him out of his sour, morose, unkind feelings. We have not yet begun to use kind words in such abundance as they ought to be used.
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God has given us evidence sufficiently clear to convince those with an open heart and mind.
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Force rules the world-not opinion but it is opinion that makes use of force.
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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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We do not rest satisfied with the present.... So imprudent we are that we wander in the times which are not ours and do not thinkof the only one which belongs to us and so idle are we that we dream of those times which are no more and thoughtlessly overlook that which alone exists. For the present is generally painful to us.
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We are never in search of things, but always in search of the search.
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We know truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.
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The only shame is to have none.
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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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If he exalts himself, I humble him. If he humbles himself, I exalt him. And I go on contradicting him Until he understands That he is a monster that passes all understanding.
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Nothing is more dastardly than to act with bravado toward God.
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Silence. All human unhappiness comes from not knowing how to stay quietly in a room.
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