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Causes Quotes by Blaise Pascal
- You see, if the height of the mercury [barometer] column is less on the top of a mountain than at the foot of it (as…
- It is not permitted to the most equitable of men to be a judge in his own cause.
- The sole cause of man's unhappiness is that he does not know how to stay quietly in his room.
- Vanity is illustrated in the cause and effect of love, as in the case of Cleopatra.
- The sole cause of all human misery is the inability of people to sit quietly in their rooms.
- Two similar faces, neither of which alone causes laughter, use laughter when they are together, by their resemblance.
- All human evil comes from a single cause, man's inability to sit still in a room.
- Thus so wretched is man that he would weary even without any cause for weariness... and so frivolous is he that, though full of a…
- Desire and force between them are responsible for all our actions; desire causes our voluntary acts, force our involuntary.
- The consciousness of the falsity of present pleasures, and the ignorance of the vanity of absent pleasures, cause inconstancy.
- Concupiscence and force are the source of all our actions; concupiscence causes voluntary actions, force involuntary ones.
- All men seek happiness. This is without exception. Whatever different means they employ, they all tend to this end. The cause of some going to…
- The heart has its order, the mind has its own, which uses principles and demonstrations. The heart has a different one. We do not prove…
- The knowledge of God without that of man's misery causes pride. The knowledge of man's misery without that of God causes despair. The knowledge of…
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