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• Discourses on humility are a source of pride in the vain and of humility in the humble. So those on scepticism cause believers to affirm. Few men speak humbly of humility, chastely of chastity, few doubtingly of scepticism.

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  Humble, Humility, Pride

  Blaise Pascal (2016). “Pensées”, p.142, Open Road Media

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• When malice has reason on its side, it looks forth bravely, and displays that reason in all its luster. When austerity and self-denial have not realized true happiness, and the soul returns to the dictates of nature, the reaction is fearfully extravagant.

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  Self, Soul, Austerity

  Blaise Pascal (1849). “Thoughts of Blaise Pascal”, p.133

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• Death is easier to bear without thinking of it, than the thought of death without peril.

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  Death, Thinking, Bears

  Blaise Pascal (2007). “Thoughts”, p.63, Cosimo, Inc.

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• A few rules include all that is necessary for the perfection of the definitions, the axioms, and the demonstrations, and consequently of the entire method of the geometrical proofs of the
  art of persuading.

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  Art, Perfection, Definitions

  Blaise Pascal, Henry Rogers, Victor Cousin, Charles Louandre (1859). “The Thoughts, Letters and Opuscules of Blaise Pascal”, p.506

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• Evil is easily discovered; there is an infinite variety; good is almost unique. But some kinds of evil are almost as difficult to discover as that which we call good; and often particular evil of this class passes for good. It needs even a certain greatness of soul to attain to this, as to that which is good.

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  Unique, Greatness, Class

  Blaise Pascal (1849). “Thoughts of Blaise Pascal”, p.147

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• For as old age is that period of life most remote from infancy, who does not see that old age in this universal man ought not to be sought in the times nearest his birth, but in those most
  remote from it?

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  Men, Age, Doe

  Blaise Pascal (2010). “Thoughts, Letters and Minor Works”, p.449, Cosimo, Inc.

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• All the dignity of man consists in thought. Thought is therefore by its nature a wonderful and incomparable thing. It must have strange defects to be contemptible. But it has such, so that nothing is more ridiculous. How great it is in its nature! How vile it is in its defects! But what is this thought? How foolish it is!

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  Men, Ridiculous, Strange

  Blaise Pascal (2010). “Thoughts, Letters and Minor Works”, p.124, Cosimo, Inc.

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• L'homme n'est qu'un sujet plein d'erreur, naturelle et ineffa c° able sans la gra" ce. Man is nothing but a subject full of natural error that cannot be eradicated except through grace.

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  Men, Errors, Grace

  c.1654-1662 Pense es, no.83 (translated byA Krailsheimer).

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• The multitude which does not reduce itself to unity is confusion.

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  Confusion, Confusing, Unity

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• All the miseries of mankind come from one thing, not knowing how to remain alone.

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  Knowing, Misery, Mankind

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• Those who make antitheses by forcing the sense are like men who make false windows for the sake of symmetry. Their rule is not to speak justly, but to make accurate figures.

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  Men, Style, Sake

  Richard Watson, Thomas Taylor, Thomas Raffles, Francis Augustus Cox, Andrew Fuller (1826). “The Christian library: A reprint of popular religious works”, p.579

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• Man is full of desires: he loves only those who can satisfy them all. "This man is a good mathematician," someone will say. But I have no concern for mathematics; he would take me for a proposition. "That one is a good soldier." He would take me for a besieged town. I need, that is to say, a decent man who can accommodate himself to all my desires in a general sort of way.

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  Love, Math, Men

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• If man should commence by studying himself, he would see how impossible it is to go further.

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  Men, Impossible, Study

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• There are vices which have no hold upon us, but in connection with others; and which, when you cut down the trunk, fall like the branches.

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  Fall, Cutting, Vices

  Blaise Pascal (1829). “Thoughts on Religion and Other Subjects”, p.266

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• Vanity is illustrated in the cause and effect of love, as in the case of Cleopatra.

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  Vanity, Causes, Cases

  Blaise Pascal, James M. Houston (2006). “The Mind on Fire: Faith for the Skeptical and Indifferent”, p.54, David C Cook

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• Caesar was too old, it seems to me, to go off and amuse himself conquering the world. Such a pastime was all right for Augustus and Alexander; they were young men, not easily held in check, but Caesar ought to have been more mature.

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  Men, World, Mature

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

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• What use is it to us to hear it said of a man that he has thrown off the yoke that he does not believe there is a God to watch over his actions, that he reckons himself the sole master of his behavior, and that he does not intend to give an account of it to anyone but himself?

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  Christian, Believe, Men

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• When I consider the small span of my life absorbed in the eternity of all time, or the small part of space which I can touch or see engulfed by the infinite immensity of spaces that I know not and that know me not, I am frightened and astonished to see myself here instead of there … now instead of then.

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  Space, Infinite, Eternity

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• Condition de l'homme: inconstance, ennui, inquie tude. Man's condition. Inconstancy, boredom, anxiety.

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  Men, Boredom, Anxiety

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• We sometimes learn more from the sight of evil than from an example of good; and it is well to accustom ourselves to profit by the evil which is so common, while that which is good is so rare.

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  Sight, Evil, Example

  Blaise Pascal (1829). “Thoughts on Religion and Other Subjects”, p.205

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• We need not have the loftiest mind to understand that here is no lasting and real satisfaction, that our pleasures are only vanity, that our evils are infinite, and, lastly, that death, which threatens us every moment, must infallibly place us within a few years under the dreadful necessity of being forever either annihilated or unhappy.

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  Death, Real, Vanity

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• Just as I do not know where I came from, so I do not know where I am going. All I know is that when I leave this world I shall fall forever into oblivion, or into the hands of an angry God, without knowing which of the two will be my lot for eternity. Such is my state of mind, full of weakness and uncertainty. The only conclusion I can draw from all this is that I must pass my days without a thought of trying to find out what is going to happen to me.

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  Fall, Hands, Two

  Blaise Pascal, James M. Houston (2006). “The Mind on Fire: Faith for the Skeptical and Indifferent”, p.120, David C Cook

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• Rivers are highways that move on and bear us whither we wish to go.

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  Moving, Rivers, Wish

  Blaise Pascal, Henry Rogers, Victor Cousin, Charles Louandre (1859). “The Thoughts, Letters and Opuscules of Blaise Pascal”, p.241

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• Therefore, those to whom God has imparted religion by intuition are very fortunate and justly convinced. But to those who do not have it, we can give it only by reasoning, waiting for God to give them spiritual insight, without which faith is only human and useless for salvation.

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  Spiritual, Giving, Waiting

  Blaise Pascal (2013). “Pensées”, p.80, Courier Corporation

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• All sorrow has its root in man's inability to sit quiet in a room by himself.

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  Men, Roots, Sorrow

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