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Blaise Pascal

Blaise Pascal

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Our imagination enlarges the present time so much that we turn eternity into nothing, and nothing into eternity.

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Blaise Pascal

Blaise Pascal

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We never truly live, but instead we hope to live; and as we are always preparing to be happy, it is inevitable that we never are.

Blaise Pascal

Blaise Pascal

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Justice over force is impotence, force without justice is tyranny.

Blaise Pascal

Blaise Pascal

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Two excesses: excluding reason, admitting nothing but reason.

Blaise Pascal

Blaise Pascal

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Our nature is in motion. Absolute rest is death.

Blaise Pascal

Blaise Pascal

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Nature has perfections to show that it is an image of God, and imperfections to prove that it is only an image.

Blaise Pascal

Blaise Pascal

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Morality is the science par excellence; it is the art of living well and being happy.

Blaise Pascal

Blaise Pascal

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I have made this letter longer than usual because I have no time to make it shorter.

Blaise Pascal

Blaise Pascal

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The one who doubts and does not investigate becomes not only unhappy, but also unjust.

Blaise Pascal

Blaise Pascal

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Misfortune reveals to the soul lights that prosperity fails to perceive.

Blaise Pascal

Blaise Pascal

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It is undoubtedly a bad thing to be full of defects; but it is an even greater evil to be full of them and not want to acknowledge it, because that is adding the evil of voluntary illusion.

Blaise Pascal

Blaise Pascal

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By talking about love, one ends up falling in love. Nothing so easy. This is the most natural passion of man.