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If man should commence by studying himself, he would see how impossible it is to go further.
Blaise Pascal
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Blaise Pascal
Age: 39 †
Born: 1623
Born: June 19
Died: 1662
Died: August 19
French Moralist
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Philosopher
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Clarmont-Ferrand
Pascal
Louis de Montalte
Amos Dettonville
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It is not shameful for a man to succumb to pain and it is shameful to succumb to pleasure.
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Things have different qualities, and the soul different inclinations for nothing is simple which is presented to the soul, and the soul never presents itself simply to any object. Hence it comes that we weep and laugh at the same thing.
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Now, if the passions had no hold on us, a week and a hundred years would amount to the same.
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All great amusements are dangerous to the Christian life but among all those which the world has invented there is none more to be feared than the theater. It is a representation of the passions so natural and so delicate that it excites them and gives birth to them in our hearts, and, above all, to that of love.
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Men often take their imagination for their heart and they believe they are converted as soon as they think of being converted.
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We do not worry about being respected in towns through which we pass. But if we are going to remain in one for a certain time, we do worry. How long does this time have to be?
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Le nez de Cle opa tre: s'il e u t e te plus court, toute la face de la terre aurait change . Cleopatra'snose: if it had beenshorter the whole face of the earth would have been different.
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Nothing is surer than that the people will be weak.
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