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Love Quotes by Blaise Pascal

76 Love quotes by Blaise Pascal

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Vanity shows up in love’s cause and effect, as in the story of Cleopatra. The quotes note that knowing many things is better than knowing everything about one, and they link true religion to love, greatness, and humility. They also say that a pure mind and transparent heart are needed, and that truth without charity becomes an idol, not God.

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Custom determines what is agreeable.

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Continuous eloquence is tedious.

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We never love a person, but only qualities.

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The eternal Being is forever if he is at all.

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By thought I embrace the universe.

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Continuous eloquence wearies.

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Continued eloquence is wearisome.

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I know whom I have believed.

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Everything that is incomprehensible does not cease to exist.

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If you do not love too much, you do not love enough.

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We are troubled only by the fears which we, and not nature, give ourselves.

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The knowledge of God is very far from the love of Him.

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When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.

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Fear not, provided you fear; but if you fear not, then fear.

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What amazes me the most is to see that everyone is not amazed at his own weakness.

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Law was once introduced without reason, and has become reasonable.

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It is much better to know something about everything than to know everything about one thing.

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That which makes us go so far for love is that we never think that we might have need of anything besides…

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Distraction is the only thing that consoles us for miseries and yet it is itself the greatest of our miseries.

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Console-toi, tu ne me chercherais pas si tu ne m'avais trouve . Comfort yourself.You would not seek me if you had not…

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We make an idol of truth itself; for truth apart from charity is not God, but His image and idol, which we…

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We make an idol of truth itself, for truth apart from charity is not God, but his image and an idol that…

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We never live, but we hope to live; and as we are always arranging to be happy, it must be that we…

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The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of. We know the truth not only by the reason, but by the…

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All men are almost led to believe not of proof, but by attraction. This way is base, ignoble, and irrelevant; every one…

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There are two types of mind . . . the mathematical, and what might be called the intuitive. The former arrives at…

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If a man loves a woman for her beauty, does he love her? No; for the smallpox, which destroys her beauty without…

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We conceal it from ourselves in vain - we must always love something. In those matters seemingly removed from love, the feeling…

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Parents fear the destruction of natural affection in their children. What is this natural principle so liable to decay? Habit is a…

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The God of Christians is a God of love and comfort, a God who fills the soul and heart of those whom…

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All great amusements are dangerous to the Christian life; but among all those which the world has invented there is none more…

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“All men naturally hate one another. They employ lust as far as possible in the service of the public weal. But this…

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Man is full of desires: he loves only those who can satisfy them all. "This man is a good mathematician," someone will…

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“What is the self? A man goes to the window to see the people passing by; if I pass by, can I…

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Le moi est ha|«s sable. The self is hateful.

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We like to be deceived.

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Unless we love the truth we cannot know it.

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Eloquence is the painting of thought ...

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Symmetry is what we see at a glance.

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Each one is all in all to himself; for being dead, all is dead to him.

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Amusement that is excessive and followed only for its own sake, allures and deceives us.

Rivers are highways that move on and bear us whither we wish to go.

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Imagination is the deceptive part in man, the mistress of error and falsehood.

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