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Eloquence is a painting of thought and thus those who, after having painted it, add something more, make a picture instead of a portrait.

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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
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Man is nothing but insincerity, falsehood, and hypocrisy, both in regard to himself and in regard to others. He does not wish that he should be told the truth, he shuns saying it to others and all these moods, so inconsistent with justice and reason, have their roots in his heart.
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Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.
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It is man's natural sickness to believe that he possesses the Truth.
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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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No soul of high estate can take pleasure in slander. It betrays a weakness.
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Our imagination so magnifies this present existence, by the power of continual reflection on it, and so attenuates eternity, by not thinking of it at all, that we reduce an eternity to nothingness, and expand a mere nothing to an eternity and this habit is so inveterately rooted in us that all the force of reason cannot induce us to lay it aside.
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Flies are so mighty that they win battles, paralyse our minds, eat up our bodies.
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[On vanity:] The nose of Cleopatra: if it had been shorter, the face of the earth would have changed.
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One of the greatest artifices the devil uses to engage men in vice and debauchery, is to fasten names of contempt on certain virtues, and thus fill weak souls with a foolish fear of passing for scrupulous, should they desire to put them in practice.
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I bring you the gift of these four words: I believe in you.
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If there were only one religion, God would indeed be manifest.
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