True eloquence makes light of eloquence. True morality makes light of morality. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Eloquence; it requires the pleasant and the real; but the pleasant must itself be drawn from the true. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
E? loquence quipersuade par douceur, non par empire, en tyran, non en roi. Eloquence should persuade gently, not by force or like… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
“Eloquence.— We need both what is pleasing and what is real, but that which pleases must itself be drawn from the true.” — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Eloquence is a painting of thought; and thus those who, after having painted it, add something more, make a picture instead of… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
La vraie e loquence se moque de l'e loquence, la vraie morale se moque de la morale. True eloquence has notime foreloquence,… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Continuous eloquence wearies. Grandeur must be abandoned to be appreciated. Continuity in everything is unpleasant. Cold is agreeable, that we may get… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
There should be in eloquence that which is pleasing and that which is real; but that which is pleasing should itself be… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
“Eloquence is painted thought, and thus those who, after having painted it, add somewhat more, make a picture, not a portrait.” — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
True eloquence makes light of eloquence, true morality makes light of morality; that is to say, the morality of the judgment, which… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Eloquence is a way of saying things in such a way, first, that those to whom we speak may listen to them… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
“Do they think that they have given us great pleasure by telling us that they hold our soul to be no more than wind… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share
There should be in eloquence that which is pleasing and that which is real; but that which is pleasing should itself be real. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share
The method of not erring is sought by all the world. The logicians profess to guide it, the geometricians alone attain it, and apart… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share
Mahomet established a religion by putting his enemies to death; Jesus Christ by commanding his followers to lay down their lives — Blaise Pascal Copy Share
Reflect on death as in Jesus Christ, not as without Jesus Christ. Without Jesus Christ it is dreadful, it is alarming, it is the… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share
The Stoics say, "Retire within yourselves; it is there you will find your rest." And that is not true. Others say, "Go out of… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share
Happiness can be found neither in ourselves nor in external things, but in God and in ourselves as united to him. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share
Amusement that is excessive and followed only for its own sake, allures and deceives us. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share
We desire truth, and find within ourselves only uncertainty. We seek happiness, and find only misery and death. We cannot but desire truth and… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share
Vanity is illustrated in the cause and effect of love, as in the case of Cleopatra. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share
“There is no denying it; one must admit that there is something astonishing about Christianity. 'It is because you were born in it,' they… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share
Imagination is the deceptive part in man, the mistress of error and falsehood. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share
The majority is the best way, because it is visible, and has strength to make itself obeyed. Yet it is the opinion of the… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share
