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It is the contest that delights us, and not the victory.

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
Delights
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Il n'y a que deux sortes d'hommes: les uns justes, qui se croient pe cheurs les autres pe cheurs, qui se croient justes. There are only two types of people: the virtuous who believe themselves to be sinners and the sinners who believe themselves to be virtuous.
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I bring you the gift of these four words: I believe in you.
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The two principles of truth, reason and senses, are not only both not genuine, but are engaged in mutual deception. The senses deceive reason through false appearances, and the senses are disturbed by passions, which produce false impressions.
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Nature is an infinite sphere of which the center is everywhere and the circumference nowhere.
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It is not good to be too free. It is not good to have all one wants.
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The parts of the universe ... all are connected with each other in such a way that I think it to be impossible to understand any one without the whole.
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All mankind's troubles are caused by one single thing, which is their inability to sit quietly.
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Things are always at their best in their beginning.
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All the good maxims which are in the world fail when applied to one's self.
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Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.
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All human evil comes from a single cause, man's inability to sit still in a room.
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We like to be deceived.
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If it is an extraordinary blindness to live without investigating what we are, it is a terrible one to live an evil life, while believing in God
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We never do evil so effectually as when we are led to do it by a false principle of conscience.
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I take it as a matter not to be disputed, that if all knew what each said of the other, there would not be four friends in the world. This seems proved by the quarrels and disputes caused by the disclosures which are occasionally made.
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On the occasions when I have pondered over men's various activities, the dangers and worries they are exposed to at Court or at war, from which so many quarrels, passions, risky, often ill-conceived actions and so on are born, I have often said that man's unhappiness springs from one thing alone, his incapacity to stay quietly in one room.
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Il n'est pas certain que tout soit incertain. (Translation: It is not certain that everything is uncertain.)
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Happiness can be found neither in ourselves nor in external things, but in God and in ourselves as united to him.
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