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• Il n'y a que deux sortes d'hommes: les uns justes, qui se croient pe cheurs; les autres pe cheurs, qui se croient justes. There are only two types of people: the virtuous who believe themselves to be sinners and the sinners who believe themselves to be virtuous.

  Blaise Pascal

  Believe, Two, People

  c.1654-1662 Pense es, pt.7, no.534.

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• We are only troubled by the fears which we, and not nature, give ourselves, for they add to the state in which we are the passions of the state in which we are not.

  Blaise Pascal

  Powerful, Giving

  "Pensées".

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• No one is offended at not seeing everything; but one does not like to be mistaken, and that perhaps arises from the fact that man naturally cannot see everything, and that naturally he cannot err in the side he looks at, since the perceptions of our senses are always true.

  Blaise Pascal

  Men, Perception, Doe

  Blaise Pascal (2013). “Pascal's Pensees”, p.8, Simon and Schuster

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• If there were only one religion, God would indeed be manifest.

  Blaise Pascal

  God, Religion God, Manifest

  Blaise Pascal (2015). “Pensees: Thoughts on Religion”, p.176, Letcetera Publishing

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• All our reasoning boils down to yielding to sentiment.

  Blaise Pascal

  Sentiments, Reasoning

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• Man is to himself the most wonderful object in nature; for he cannot conceive what the body is, still less what the mind is, and least of all how a body should be united to a mind. This is
  the consummation of his difficulties, and yet it is his very being.

  Blaise Pascal

  Men, Mind, Body

  Blaise Pascal (2010). “Thoughts, Letters & Minor Works”, p.31, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Atheism shows strength of mind, but only to a certain degree.

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  Atheist, Mind, Atheism

  Blaise Pascal (2013). “Pensées”, p.63, Courier Corporation

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• Justice and power must be brought together, so that whatever is just may be powerful, and whatever is powerful may be just.

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  Powerful, Justice, Together

  Blaise Pascal (1829). “Thoughts on Religion and Other Subjects”, p.265

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• Philosophers.-We are full of things which take us out of ourselves.

  Blaise Pascal

  Philosopher

  Blaise Pascal (2016). “Pensées”, p.174, Open Road Media

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• To make a man a saint, it must indeed be by grace; and whoever doubts this does not know what a saint is, or a man.

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  Religious, Men, Grace

  Blaise Pascal, Henry Rogers, Victor Cousin, Charles Louandre (1859). “The Thoughts, Letters and Opuscules of Blaise Pascal”, p.380

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• Continuity in everything is unpleasant.

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  Change, Continuity

  Blaise Pascal (2010). “Thoughts, Letters and Minor Works”, p.122, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Few men speak humbly of humility, chastely of chastity, skeptically of skepticism.

  Blaise Pascal

  Humility, Pride, Math

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• We run heedlessly into the abyss after putting something in front of us to stop us from seeing it.

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  Running, Abyss, Seeing

  Blaise Pascal (2008). “Human Happiness”, Penguin Group USA

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• There should be in eloquence that which is pleasing and that which is real; but that which is pleasing should itself be real.

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  Real, Being Real, Should

  Blaise Pascal (1829). “Thoughts on Religion and Other Subjects”, p.284

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• The majority is the best way, because it is visible, and has strength to make itself obeyed. Yet it is the opinion of the least able.

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  Democracy, Majority, Able

  Blaise Pascal (2009). “Thoughts”, p.264, Lulu.com

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• 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 proper bounds. There are two equally dangerous extremes- to shut reason out, and not to let nothing in.

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  Greatness, Two, Knowing

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• We are fools to depend upon the society of our fellow-men. Wretched as we are, powerless as we are, they will not aid us; we shall die alone.

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  Men, Solitude, Fellow Man

  Blaise Pascal (2013). “Pascal's Pensees”, p.64, Simon and Schuster

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• It is a dangerous experiment to call in gratitude as an ally to love. Love is a debt which inclination always pays, obligation never.

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  Gratitude, Love Is, Allies

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• He who cannot believe is cursed, for he reveals by his unbelief that God has not chosen to give him grace.

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  Believe, Giving, Grace

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• All I know is that I must soon die, but what I know least is this very death which I cannot escape.

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  Death, Knows, Dies

  Blaise Pascal (2013). “Pensées”, p.55, Courier Corporation

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• The serene, silent beauty of a holy life is the most powerful influence in the world, next to the night of God.

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  Powerful, Night, World

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• We know truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.

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  Wisdom, Truth, Heart

  "Blaise Pascal Thoughts: Selected and Translated".

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• Earnestness is enthusiasm tempered by reason.

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  Integrity, Enthusiasm, Reason

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• Beauty is a harmonious relation between something in our nature and the quality of the object which delights us.

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  Beauty, Nature, Quality

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• A mere trifle consoles us, for a mere trifle distresses us.

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  Trifles, Distress, Console

  "Pensées".

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