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Us Quotes by Blaise Pascal
- Some vices only lay hold of us by means of others, and these, like branches, fall on removal of the trunk.
- Little things console us because little things afflict us.
- The struggle alone pleases us, not the victory.
- A trifle consoles us, for a trifle distresses us.
- 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.
- We run carelessly to the precipice, after we have put something before us to prevent us seeing it.
- The immortality of the soul is a matter which is of so great consequence to us and which touches us so profoundly that we must…
- Knowing God without knowing our own wretchedness makes for pride. Knowing our own wretchedness without knowing God makes for despair. Knowing Jesus Christ strikes the…
- Let each of us examine his thoughts; he will find them wholly concerned with the past or the future. We almost never think of the…
- Each man is everything to himself, for with his death everything is dead for him. That is why each of us thinks he is everything…
- Happiness is neither within us only, or without us; it is the union of ourselves with God
- Distraction is the only thing that consoles us for miseries and yet it is itself the greatest of our miseries.
- Now, if the passions had no hold on us, a week and a hundred years would amount to the same.
- We implore the mercy of God, not that He may leave us at peace in our vices, but that He may deliver us from them.
- Extremes are for us as though they were not, and we are not within their notice. They escape us, or we them. This is our…
- 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…
- Rivers are roads which move, and which carry us whither we desire to go.
- It is the fight alone that pleases us, not the victory.
- Faith certainly tells us what the senses do not, but not the contrary of what they see; it is above, not against them.
- Happiness is neither without us nor within us. It is in God, both without us and within us.
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