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Blaise Pascal

Blaise Pascal

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Man has illusions like the bird has wings. That's what sustains him.

Blaise Pascal

Blaise Pascal

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Mediocrity is the only thing that suits. This has been established by the majority, and it bites anyone who escapes from it in any way.

Blaise Pascal

Blaise Pascal

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The strings that tie the respect of one for another are, in general, strings of necessity.

Blaise Pascal

Blaise Pascal

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Reason works slowly, and with so many considerations, on so many principles, that it often falls asleep or gets lost at any moment. Passion works in an instant.

Blaise Pascal

Blaise Pascal

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The greatness of a man lies in knowing how to recognize his own smallness.

Blaise Pascal

Blaise Pascal

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There are only two classes of consistent people: those who enjoy God because they believe in him, and those who suffer because they do not possess him.

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.