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Than Quotes by Blaise Pascal
- Nothing fortifies scepticism more than the fact that there are some who are not sceptics; if all were so, they would be wrong.
- Can anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of a river and…
- I have made this letter longer than usual, only because I have not had the time to make it shorter.
- People are generally better persuaded by the reasons which they have themselves discovered than by those which have come in to the mind of others.
- 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 some who speak well and write badly. For the place and the audience warm them, and draw from their minds more than they…
- People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found by others.
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