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• Nothing is so important to man as his own state; nothing is so formidable to him as eternity. And thus it is unnatural that thereshould be men indifferent to the loss of their existence and to the perils of everlasting suffering.

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  Death, Loss, Men

  Blaise Pascal (2013). “Pascal's Pensees”, p.59, Simon and Schuster

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• What a strange vanity painting is; it attracts admiration by resembling the original, we do not admire.

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  Pain, Vanity, Strange

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• 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 great passion.

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  Passion, Men, Spirit

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• Orthodoxy on one side of the Pyrenees may be heresy on the other.

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  Sides, May, Orthodoxy

  Blaise Pascal (1731). “Thoughts on Religion, and Other Curious Subjects: Written Originally in French”, p.183

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• Man lives between the infinitely large and the infinitely small.

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  Men

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• You corrupt religion either in favour of your friends, or against your enemies.

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  Enemy, Religion, Favour

  Blaise Pascal (2007). “Thoughts”, p.304, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Brave deeds are wasted when hidden.

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  Brave, Deeds

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• Men seek rest in a struggle against difficulties; and when they have conquered these, rest becomes insufferable.

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  Struggle, Men, Anxiety

  Blaise Pascal (2016). “Pensées”, p.66, Open Road Media

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• The greater intellect one has, the more originality one finds in men. Ordinary persons find no difference between men.

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  Men, Differences, Ordinary

  Blaise Pascal (2010). “Thoughts, Letters and Minor Works”, p.10, Cosimo, Inc.

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• I feel engulfed in the infinite immensity of spaces whereof I know nothing, and which know nothing of me, I am terrified The eternal silence of these infinite spaces alarms me.

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  Math, Space, Silence

  "The Thoughts of Blaise Pascal". Book by Blaise Pascal, published by Kegan Paul. Chapter "The Misery of Man Without God", 1885.

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• Il est non seulement impossible, mais inutile de conna|"tre Dieu sans Je sus-Christ. It is not only impossible, but also useless to recognize God without Jesus.

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  Jesus, Useless, Impossible

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• One must have deeper motives and judge everything accordingly, but go on talking like an ordinary person.

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  Talking, Judging, Ordinary

  Blaise Pascal (1966). “Pascal Pensées”, Penguin Classics

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• Chance gives rise to thoughts, and chance removes them; no art can keep or acquire them.

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  Art, Destiny, Giving

  Blaise Pascal (2007). “Thoughts”, p.125, Cosimo, Inc.

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• God only pours out his light into the mind after having subdued the rebellion of the will by an altogether heavenly gentleness which charms and wins it.

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  Winning, Light, Mind

  Blaise Pascal, Henry Rogers, Victor Cousin, Charles Louandre (1861). “The Thoughts, Letters and Opuscules of Blaise Pascal”, p.502

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• He that takes truth for his guide, and duty for his end, may safely trust to God's providence to lead him aright.

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  Truth, May, Trust In God

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• Time heals griefs and quarrels, for we change and are no longer the same persons. Neither the offender nor the offended are any more themselves.

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  Life, Grief, Offended You

  Blaise Pascal (2012). “Pascal's Pensées”, p.85, tredition

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• The finite is annihilated in the presence of the infinite, and becomes a pure nothing. So our spirit before God, so our justice before divine justice.

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  Divine Justice, Spirit, Infinite

  Blaise Pascal (2013). “Pensées”, p.65, Courier Corporation

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• The eternal Being is forever if he is at all.

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  God, Forever, Eternal

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• Now, if the passions had no hold on us, a week and a hundred years would amount to the same.

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  Time, Passion, Years

  Blaise Pascal (2013). “Pensées”, p.198, Courier Corporation

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• Two things control men's nature, instinct and experience.

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  Nature, Men, Two

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• The incredulous are the more credulous. They believe the miracles of Vespasian that they may not believe those of Moses.
  [Fr., Incredules les plus credules. Ils croient les miracle de Vespasien, pour ne pas croire ceux de Moise.]

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  Believe, Miracle, May

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• Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed.

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  Inspiring, Nature, Men

  Blaise Pascal (2016). “Pensées”, p.135, Open Road Media

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• Man is neither angel nor beast.

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  Angel, Men, Beast

  c.1654-1662 Pense es, pt.6, no.358.

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• All is one, all is different. How many natures exist in man? How many vocations? And by what chance does each man ordinarily choose what he has heard praised?

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  Men, Doe, Different

  Blaise Pascal (2015). “Pensees: Thoughts on Religion”, p.52, Letcetera Publishing

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• Christian piety annihilates the egoism of the heart; worldly politeness veils and represses it.

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  Christian, Heart, Veils

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