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Against Quotes by Blaise Pascal
- 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…
- Those who write against vanity want the glory of having written well, and their readers the glory of reading well, and I who write this…
- The best defense against logic is ignorance.
- You corrupt religion either in favour of your friends, or against your enemies.
- Even those who write against fame wish for the fame of having written well, and those who read their works desire the fame of having…
- As men are not able to fight against death, misery, ignorance, they have taken it into their heads, in order to be happy, not to…
- Men seek rest in a struggle against difficulties; and when they have conquered these, rest becomes insufferable.
- Faith certainly tells us what the senses do not, but not the contrary of what they see; it is above, not against them.
- It is a strange and long war, the war that violence is forever waging against truth. All the efforts of violence are powerless to weaken…
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