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If you want others to have a good opinion of you, say nothing.

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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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All men have happiness as their object: there is no exception. However different the means they employ, they all aim at the same end.
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Instead of complaining that God had hidden himself, you will give Him thanks for having revealed so much of Himself.
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The property of power is to protect.
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Making fun of philosophy is really philosophising.
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Man lives between the infinitely large and the infinitely small.
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We have so exalted a notion of the human soul that we cannot bear to be despised, or even not to be esteemed by it. Man, in fact, places all his happiness in this esteem.
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Death itself is less painful when it comes upon us unawares than the bare contemplation of it, even when danger is far distant.
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If you do not love too much, you do not love enough.
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All of our reasoning ends in surrender to feeling.
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The heart has arguments with which the logic of mind is not aquainted.
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Lust is the source of all our actions, and humanity.
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St. Augustine teaches us that there is in each man a Serpent, an Eve, and an Adam. Our senses and natural propensities are the Serpent the excitable desire is the Eve and reason is the Adam. Our nature tempts us perpetually criminal desire is often excited but sin is not completed till reason consents.
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The majority is the best way, because it is visible, and has strength to make itself obeyed. Yet it is the opinion of the least able.
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There is a lot of difference between tempting and leading into error. God tempts but does not lead into error. To tempt is to provide opportunities for us to do certain things if we do not love God, but putting us under no necessity to do so. To lead into error is to compel a man necessarily to conclude and follow a falsehood.
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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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We are so presumptuous that we wish to be known to all the world, even to those who come after us and we are so vain that the esteem of five or six persons immediately around us is enough to amuse and satisfy us.
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