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• All men have happiness as their object: there is no exception. However different the means they employ, they all aim at the same end.

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  Happiness, Mean, Men

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• The more intelligence one has, the more people one finds original. Commonplace people see no difference between men.

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  Men, Differences, People

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• En un mot, l'homme conna|"t qu'il est mise rable: il est donc mise rable, puisqu'il l'est; mais il est bien grand, puisqu'il le conna|"t. In one word, man knows that he is miserable and therefore he is miserable because he knows it; but he is also worthy, because he knows his condition.

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  Men, Miserable, Worthy

  c.1654-1662 Pense es, pt.6, no.416.

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• Le moi est ha|«s sable. The self is hateful.

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  Self, Hateful

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• We do not rest satisfied with the present.... So imprudent we are that we wander in the times which are not ours and do not thinkof the only one which belongs to us; and so idle are we that we dream of those times which are no more and thoughtlessly overlook that which alone exists. For the present is generally painful to us.

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  Dream, Hope, Painful

  Blaise Pascal (2010). “Thoughts, Letters & Minor Works”, p.64, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Those who profess contempt for men, and put them on a level with beasts, yet wish to be admired and believed by men, and contradict themselves by their own feelings--their nature, which is stronger than all, convincing them of the greatness of man more forcibly than reason convinces them of his baseness.

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  Greatness, Men, Feelings

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• Those honor nature well, who teach that she can speak on everything...

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  Honor, Speak, Teach

  "Pensées" by Blaise Pascal, (Section I: Thoughts on Mind and Style), 1669.

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• If magistrates had true justice, and if physicians had the true art of healing, they would have no occasion for square caps; the majesty of these sciences would itself be venerable enough.

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  Art, Healing, Squares

  Blaise Pascal (2010). “Thoughts, Letters and Minor Works”, p.36, Cosimo, Inc.

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• I would have far more fear of being mistaken, and of finding that the Christian religion was true, than of not being mistaken in believing it true.

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  Christian, Believe, Mistaken

  Blaise Pascal (2015). “Pensees: Thoughts on Religion”, p.86, Letcetera Publishing

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• Everything that is incomprehensible does not, however, cease to exist.

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  Doe, Existence, Cease

  "The Mind on Fire: Faith for the Skeptical and Indifferent".

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• Those great efforts of intellect, upon which the mind sometimes touches, are such that it cannot maintain itself there. It only leaps to them, not as upon a throne, forever, but merely for an instant.

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  Effort, Forever, Intelligence

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• The charm of fame is so great that we like every object to which it is attached, even death.

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  Reputation, Fame, Charm

  Blaise Pascal (2010). “Thoughts, Letters and Minor Works”, p.61, Cosimo, Inc.

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• That we must love one God only is a thing so evident that it does not require miracles to prove it.

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  Miracle, Doe, Prove It

  Blaise Pascal (2015). “Pensees: Thoughts on Religion”, p.268, Letcetera Publishing

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• That a religion may be true, it must have knowledge of our nature.

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  Religion, May, Being True

  Blaise Pascal (2013). “Pascal's Pensees”, p.121, Simon and Schuster

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• How vain painting is-we admire the realistic depiction of objects which in their original state we don't admire at all.

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  Painting, Realistic, Vain

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• I take it as a matter not to be disputed, that if all knew what each said of the other, there would not be four friends in the world. This seems proved by the quarrels and disputes caused by the disclosures which are occasionally made.

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  Gossip, World, Four

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• Without the knowledge of our wretchedness, the knowledge of God creates pride. With it, the knowledge of God creates despair. The knowledge of Christ offers a third way, because in him we find both God and our wretchedness.

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  Hope, Pride, Despair

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• It is not only old and early impressions that deceive us; the charms of novelty have the same power.

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  Deception, Novelty, Deceiving

  Blaise Pascal (1829). “Thoughts on Religion and Other Subjects”, p.80

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• If our condition were truly happy, we would not need diversion from thinking of it in order to make ourselves happy.

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  Order, Truly Happy, Diversion

  "Pensées".

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• We like security: we like the pope to be infallible in matters of faith, and grave doctors to be so in moral questions so that we can feel reassured.

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  Doctors, Matter, Moral

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

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• Let us weigh the gain and the loss, in wagering that God is. Consider these alternatives: if you win, you win all, if you lose you lose nothing. Do not hesitate, then, to wager that he is.

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  Loss, Winning, Lost Friendship

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• 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.

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  Wisdom, Intelligence, Fool

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

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• A town, a landscape are when seen from afar a town and a landscape; but as one gets nearer, there are houses, trees, tiles leaves, grasses, ants, legs of ants and so on to infinity. All this is subsumed under the name of landscape.

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  Names, House, Tree

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• According to the doctrine of chance, you ought to put yourself to the trouble of searching for the truth; for if you die without worshiping the True Cause, you are lost. "But," say you, "if He had wished me to worship Him, He would have left me signs of His will." He has done so; but you neglect them. Seek them, therefore; it is well worth it.

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  Doctrine, Done, Causes

  Blaise Pascal (2013). “Pascal's Pensees”, p.72, Simon and Schuster

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• Thus so wretched is man that he would weary even without any cause for weariness... and so frivolous is he that, though full of a thousand reasons for weariness, the least thing, such as playing billiards or hitting a ball, is sufficient enough to amuse him.

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  Sports, Men, Play

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