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Blaise Pascal


French
June 19, 1623
Philosopher
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Men blaspheme what they do not know.


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Tags: Men Know
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Earnestness is enthusiasm tempered by reason.


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Two things control men's nature, instinct and experience.


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It is the fight alone that pleases us, not the victory.


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Tags: Alone Us Fight
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Little things console us because little things afflict us.


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Tags: Because Things Us
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Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.


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Tags: Much Kind Words
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Faith embraces many truths which seem to contradict each other.


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Tags: Faith Which Other
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Chance gives rise to thoughts, and chance removes them; no art can keep or acquire them.


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Tags: Chance Them Keep
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Men are so necessarily mad, that not to be mad would amount to another form of madness.


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Tags: Men Would Another
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Happiness is neither without us nor within us. It is in God, both without us and within us.


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Tags: God Happiness Us
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We run carelessly to the precipice, after we have put something before us to prevent us seeing it.


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The strength of a man's virtue should not be measured by his special exertions, but by his habitual acts.
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If our condition were truly happy, we would not seek diversion from it in order to make ourselves happy.
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In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don't.
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Tags: Faith Who Want
There are only two kinds of men: the righteous who think they are sinners and the sinners who think they are righteous.
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Tags: Men Think Who
Since we cannot know all that there is to be known about anything, we ought to know a little about everything.
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Tags: About Know Little
Justice is what is established; and thus all our established laws will necessarily be regarded as just without examination, since they are established.
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Tags: Just Our Will
Reason commands us far more imperiously than a master; for in disobeying the one we are unfortunate, and in disobeying the other we are fools.
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Tags: More Than Other
Continuous eloquence wearies. Grandeur must be abandoned to be appreciated. Continuity in everything is unpleasant. Cold is agreeable, that we may get warm.
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It is good to be tired and wearied by the futile search after the true good, that we may stretch out our arms to the Redeemer.
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Tags: Good Out Our
The last proceeding of reason is to recognize that there is an infinity of things which are beyond it. There is nothing so conformable to reason as this disavowal of reason.
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The last act is bloody, however pleasant all the rest of the play is: a little earth is thrown at last upon our head, and that is the end forever.
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Tags: Our Little Play
Habit is a second nature that destroys the first. But what is nature? Why is habit not natural? I am very much afraid that nature itself is only a first habit, just as habit is a second nature.
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Tags: Nature Just Very