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• When we see an effect happen always in the same manner, we infer that it takes place by a natural necessity; as, for instance, that the sun will rise to morrow; but nature often deceives us, and will not submit to its own rules.

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  Nature, Sun, Deceiving

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• Any unity which doesn't have its origin in the multitudes is tyranny.

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  Unity, Tyranny, Multitudes

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• I can well conceive a man without hands, feet, head. But I cannot conceive man without thought; he would be a stone or a brute.

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  Men, Hands, Feet

  Blaise Pascal (2007). “Thoughts”, p.119, Cosimo, Inc.

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• The married should not forget that to speak of love begets love.

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  Marriage, Love Is, Married

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• Nobody is publicly accepted as an expert on poetry unless he displays the sign of poet, mathematician, etc., but universal men want no sign and make hardly any distinction between the crafts of poet and embroiderer. Universal men are not called poets or mathematicians, etc. But they are all these things and judges of them too. No one could guess what they are, and they will talk about whatever was being talked about when they came in. One quality is not more noticeable in them than another, unless it becomes necessary to put it into practice, and then we remember it.

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  Men, Practice, Judging

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• Each one is all in all to himself; for being dead, all is dead to him.

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  Self

  Blaise Pascal (2013). “Pensées”, p.128, Courier Corporation

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• Extremes are for us as if they were not, and as if we were not in regard to them; they escape from us, or we from them.

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  Extremes, Regard, Ifs

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• Continuous eloquence wearies. Grandeur must be abandoned to be appreciated. Continuity in everything is unpleasant. Cold is agreeable, that we may get warm.

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  May, Cold, Appreciated

  Blaise Pascal, W. F. Trotter, T. S. Eliot (2003). “Pensees”, p.98, Courier Corporation

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• The mind must not be forced; artificial and constrained manners fill it with foolish presumption, through unnatural elevation and vain and ridiculous inflation, instead of solid and
  vigorous nutriment.

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  Mind, Ridiculous, Foolish

  Blaise Pascal, Henry Rogers, Victor Cousin, Charles Louandre (1861). “The Thoughts, Letters and Opuscules of Blaise Pascal”, p.513

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• Eloquence is the painting of thought.

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  Painting, Eloquence

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• ...for the truth is always older than all the opinions men have held regarding it; and one should be ignoring the nature of truth if we imagined that the truth began at the time it came to be known.

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  Truth, Men, Opinion

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• The world is ruled by force, not by opinion; but opinion uses force.

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  Use, World, Opinion

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• All mankind's troubles are caused by one single thing, which is their inability to sit quietly.

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  Life, Inability, Trouble

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• That dog is mine said those poor children; that place in the sun is mine; such is the beginning and type of usurpation throughout the earth.
  [Fr., Ce chien est a moi, disaient ces pauvres enfants; c'est la ma place au soleil. Voila le commencement et l'image de l'usurpation de toute la terre.]

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  Dog, Children, Earth

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• It is natural for the mind to believe and for the will to love; so that, for want of true objects, they must attach themselves to false.

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  True Love, Believe, Mind

  Blaise Pascal (2013). “Pensées”, p.24, Courier Corporation

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• Opinion is the queen of the world.

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  Queens, World, Opinion

  Blaise Pascal, Thomas Adam (1833). “Thoughts on religion”, p.125

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• Law, without force, is impotent.

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  Law, Lawyer, Force

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• Must we kill to prevent there being any wicked? This is to make both parties wicked instead of one.

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  Party, Wicked, Killing

  Blaise Pascal (2013). “Pascal's Pensees”, p.274, Simon and Schuster

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• Quand on voit le style naturel, on est tout e tonne et ravi, car on s'attendait de voir un auteur, et on trouve un homme. When we see a natural style we are quite amazed and delighted, because we expected to see an author and find a man.

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  Men, Car, Style

  'Pensèes' (1670) no. 29

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• We feel neither extreme heat nor extreme cold; qualities that are in excess are so much at variance with our feelings that they are impalpable: we do not feel them, though we suffer from their effects.

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  Feelings, Suffering, Quality

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• It is not shameful for a man to succumb to pain and it is shameful to succumb to pleasure.

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  Pain, Men, Pleasure

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• Thinking too little about things or thinking too much both make us obstinate and fanatical.

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  Thinking, Littles, Too Much

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

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• The sweetness of glory is so great that, join it to what we will, even to death, we love it.

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  Glory, Sweetness

  Blaise Pascal, Auguste Molinier (1905). “The Thoughts of Blaise Pascal”

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• We have an idea of truth, invincible to all scepticism.

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  Truth, Ideas, Invincible

  Blaise Pascal (2015). “Pensees: Thoughts on Religion”, p.120, Letcetera Publishing

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• How vain painting is, exciting admiration by its resemblance to things of which we do not admire the originals.

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  Admiration, Painting, Vain

  Pensees no. 74 (1658)

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