Blaise Pascal Quotes

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• Chess is the gymnasium of the mind.
• Continuous eloquence is tedious.
• It is of dangerous consequence to represent to man how near he is to the level of beasts, without showing him at the same time…
• All evil stems from this-that we do. Know how to handle your solitude.
• The serene, silent beauty of a holy life is the most powerful influence in the world, next to the night of God.
• What a vast difference there is between knowing God and loving Him.
• The multitude which does not reduce itself to unity is confusion.
• To go beyond the bounds of moderation is to outrage humanity.
• If we let ourselves believe that man began with divine grace, that he forfeited this by sin, and that he can be redeemed only by…
• Beauty is a harmonious relation between something in our nature and the quality of the object which delights us.
• All our life passes in this way: we seek rest by struggling against certain obstacles, and once they are overcome, rest proves intolerable because of…
• All man's troubles come from not knowing how to sit still in one room.
• If magistrates had true justice, and if physicians had the true art of healing, they would have no occasion for square caps; the majesty of…
• No animal admires another animal.
• Dull minds are never either intuitive or mathematical.
• Those honor nature well, who teach that she can speak on everything.
• The manner in which Epictetus, Montaigne, and Salomon de Tultie wrote, is the most usual, the most suggestive, the most remembered, and the oftener quoted;…
• Symmetry is what we see at a glance; based on the fact that there is no reason for any difference...
• Lust is the source of all our actions, and humanity.
• The heart has arguments with which the logic of mind is not aquainted.

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