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One Quotes by Blaise Pascal
- 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…
- Jesus was in a garden, not of delight as the first Adam, in which he destroyed himself and the whole human race, but in one…
- When I have occasionally set myself to consider the different distractions of men, the pains and perils to which they expose themselves I have discovered…
- All mankind's unhappiness derives from one thing: his inability to know how to remain in repose in one room.
- The more intelligence one has, the more people one finds original. Commonplace people see no difference between men.
- There is a virtuous fear, which is the effect of faith; and there is a vicious fear, which is the product of doubt. The former…
- Il y a deux sortes d'esprits, l'un ge ome trique, et l'autre que l'on peut appeler de finesse. Le premier a des vues lentes, dures…
- Quelque e tendue d'esprit que l'on ait, l'on n'est capable que d'une grande passion. However vast a man's spirit, he is only capable of one…
- La dernie' re chose qu'on trouve en faisant un ouvrage, est de savoir celle qu'il faut mettre la premie' re. The last thing one discovers…
- En un mot, l'homme conna|"t qu'il est mise rable: il est donc mise rable, puisqu'il l'est; mais il est bien grand, puisqu'il le conna|"t. In…
- Few friendships would survive if each one knew what his friend says of him behind his back.
- The present letter is a very long one, simply because I had no leisure to make it shorter.
- That we must love one God only is a thing so evident that it does not require miracles to prove it.
- The greater intellect one has, the more originality one finds in men. Ordinary persons find no difference between men.
- It is not good to be too free. It is not good to have everything one wants.
- One must know oneself. If this does not serve to discover truth, it at least serves as a rule of life and there is nothing…
- Reason commands us far more imperiously than a master; for in disobeying the one we are unfortunate, and in disobeying the other we are fools.
- There are two kinds of people one can call reasonable: those who serve God with all their heart because they know him, and those who…
- When one does not love too much, one does not love enough.
- Passion cannot be beautiful without excess; one either loves too much or not enough.
- If God exists, not seeking God must be the gravest error imaginable. If one decides to sincerely seek for God and doesn't find God, the…
- 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…
- Anyone who does not see the vanity of the world is very vain himself. So who does not see it, apart from young people whose…
- It is much better to know something about everything than to know everything about one thing.
- When a natural discourse paints a passion or an effect, one feels within oneself the truth of what one reads, which was there before, although…
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