Blaise Pascal Quotes

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• Nothing fortifies scepticism more than the fact that there are some who are not sceptics; if all were so, they would be wrong.
• Flies are so mighty that they win battles, paralyse our minds, eat up our bodies.
• To go beyond the bounds of moderation is to outrage humanity. The greatness of the human soul is shown by knowing how to keep within…
• Not to be mad is another form of madness
• I do not admire a virtue like valour when it is pushed to excess, if I do not see at the same time the excess…
• Jesus was in a garden, not of delight as the first Adam, in which he destroyed himself and the whole human race, but in one…
• When I have occasionally set myself to consider the different distractions of men, the pains and perils to which they expose themselves I have discovered…
• Without Jesus Christ man must be in vice and misery with Jesus Christ man is free from vice and misery in Him is all our…
• The pagans do not know God, and love only the earth. The Jews know the true God, and love only the earth. The Christians know…
• The captain of a ship is not chosen from those of the passengers who comes from the best family.
• Christianity is strange. It bids man recognise that he is vile, even abominable, and bids him desire to be like God. Without such a counterpoise,…
• Either Christianity is true or it's false. If you bet that it's true, and you believe in God and submit to Him, then if it…
• Man is nothing but insincerity, falsehood, and hypocrisy, both in regard to himself and in regard to others. He does not wish that he should…
• Nothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest, without passion, without business, without entertainment, without care. It is then that he recognizes…
• Continued eloquence is wearisome.
• Two similar faces, neither of which alone causes laughter, use laughter when they are together, by their resemblance.
• Amusement allures and deceives us and leads us down imperceptibly in thoughtlessness to the grave
• A jester, a bad character.
• All mankind's unhappiness derives from one thing: his inability to know how to remain in repose in one room.
• Necessity, that great refuge and excuse for human frailty, breaks through all law; and he is not to be accounted in fault whose crime is…

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