Do you wish people to speak well of you? Then do not speak at all yourself. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
We must keep our thought secret, and judge everything by it, while talking like the people. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
When I see the blind and wretched state of men, when I survey the whole universe in its deadness, and man left… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
It is dangerous to tell the people that the laws are unjust; for they obey them only because they think them just.… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
In proportion as our own mind is enlarged we discover a greater number of men of originality. Commonplace people see no difference… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
We are not satisfied with real life; we want to live some imaginary life in the eyes of other people and to… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
There are only three types of people; those who have found God and serve him; those who have not found God and… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
We must make good people wish that the Christian faith were true, and then show that it is. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
There are two kinds of people one can call reasonable: those who serve God with all their heart because they know him,… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
The sole cause of all human misery is the inability of people to sit quietly in their rooms. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Do you wish people to think well of you? Don't speak well of yourself. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found by others. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
That something so obvious as the vanity of the world should be so little recognized that people find it odd and surprising… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
In order to enter into a real knowledge of your condition, consider it in this image: A man was cast by a… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Kind words do not cost much. They never blister the tongue or lips. They make other people good-natured. They also produce their… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
We are so presumptuous that we should like to be known all over the world, even by people who will only come… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Il n'y a que deux sortes d'hommes: les uns justes, qui se croient pe cheurs; les autres pe cheurs, qui se croient… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Cold words freeze people, and hot words scorch them, and bitter words make them bitter, and wrathful words make them wrathful. Kind… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
People almost invariably arrive at their beliefs not on the basis of proof but on the basis of what they find attractive. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
“Man's sensitivity to little things and insensitivity to the greatest things are marks of a strange disorder.” — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
The more intelligence one has, the more people one finds original. Commonplace people see no difference between men. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
People are generally better persuaded by the reasons which they have themselves discovered than by those which have come in to the… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
The great mass of people judge well of things, for they are in natural ignorance, which is man's true state. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Anyone who does not see the vanity of the world is very vain himself. So who does not see it, apart from… — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
Amusement that is excessive and followed only for its own sake, allures and deceives us. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
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 Image
Vanity is illustrated in the cause and effect of love, as in the case of Cleopatra. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
