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Greatness Quotes by Blaise Pascal
- The origins of disputes between philosophers is, that one class of them have undertaken to raise man by displaying his greatness, and the other to…
- 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…
- A man does not show his greatness by being at one extremity, but rather by touching both at once.
- 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…
- 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…
- That something so obvious as the vanity of the world should be so little recognized that people find it odd and surprising to be told…
- Man's greatness lies in his power of thought.
- The greatness of man is great in that he knows himself to be wretched. A tree does not know itself to be wretched.
- It is dangerous to explain too clearly to man how like he is to the animals without pointing out his greatness. It is also dangerous…
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- Th abuse of greatness is when it disjoins remorse from power. — William Shakespeare
- Consider now the Milky Way. Here also we see an innumerable dust, only the grains of this dust are no longer atoms… — Henri Poincare