Eloquence.— We need both what is pleasing and what is…

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

The desire for riches is more sharpened by their use than by their need. Pleasing all: a mark that can never be aimed at…

— Michel de Montaigne

Continuous eloquence is tedious.

— Blaise Pascal

True eloquence makes light of eloquence. True morality makes light of morality.

— Blaise Pascal

“Eloquence is painted thought, and thus those who, after having painted it, add somewhat more, make a picture, not a portrait.”

— Blaise Pascal

Eloquence; it requires the pleasant and the real; but the pleasant must itself be drawn from the true.

— Blaise Pascal

Continuous eloquence wearies. Grandeur must be abandoned to be appreciated. Continuity in everything is unpleasant. Cold is agreeable, that we may get warm.

— Blaise Pascal

Eloquence is a painting of the thoughts.

— Blaise Pascal

Continuous eloquence wearies.

— Blaise Pascal

Continued eloquence is wearisome.

— Blaise Pascal

Eloquence is a way of saying things in such a way, first, that those to whom we speak may listen to them without pain…

— Blaise Pascal

E? loquence quipersuade par douceur, non par empire, en tyran, non en roi. Eloquence should persuade gently, not by force or like a tyrant…

— Blaise Pascal

True eloquence makes light of eloquence, true morality makes light of morality; that is to say, the morality of the judgment, which has no…

— Blaise Pascal

Eloquence is a painting of thought; and thus those who, after having painted it, add something more, make a picture instead of a portrait.

— Blaise Pascal

La vraie e loquence se moque de l'e loquence, la vraie morale se moque de la morale. True eloquence has notime foreloquence, true morality…

— Blaise Pascal