Blaise Pascal Quotes

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• Man is only a reed, the weakest in nature, but he is a thinking reed. There is no need for the whole universe to take…
• When a soldier complains of his hard life (or a labourer, etc.) try giving him nothing to do.
• Imagination magnifies small objects with fantastic exaggeration until they fill our soul, and with bold insolence cuts down great things to its own size, as…
• Each man is everything to himself, for with his death everything is dead for him. That is why each of us thinks he is everything…
• We make an idol of truth itself, for truth apart from charity is not God, but his image and an idol that we must not…
• In difficult times carry something beautiful in your heart.
• To make a man a saint, it must indeed be by grace; and whoever doubts this does not know what a saint is, or a…
• The more I see of Mankind, the more I prefer my dog.
• Love knows no limit to its endurance, no end to its trust, no fading of its hope; it can outlast anything. Love still stands when…
• Happiness is neither within us only, or without us; it is the union of ourselves with God
• Distraction is the only thing that consoles us for miseries and yet it is itself the greatest of our miseries.
• The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of... We know the truth not only by the reason, but by the heart." - Blaise…
• When I consider the small span of my life absorbed in the eternity of all time, or the small part of space which I can…
• What a chimaera then is man, what a novelty, what a monster, what chaos, what a subject of contradiction, what a prodigy! Judge of all…
• 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 has…
• Now, if the passions had no hold on us, a week and a hundred years would amount to the same.
• I know whom I have believed.
• We implore the mercy of God, not that He may leave us at peace in our vices, but that He may deliver us from them.
• The knowledge of God is very far from the love of Him.
• Let a man choose what condition he will, and let him accumulate around him all the goods and gratifications seemingly calculated to make him happy…

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