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• Little things console us because little things afflict us.

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  Inspirational, Littles, Little Things

  Blaise Pascal (2013). “Blaise Pascal Thoughts: Selected and Translated”, p.62, Cambridge University Press

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• I maintain that, if everyone knew what others said about him, there would not be four friends in the world.

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  Friendship, Gossip, World

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• Fashion is a tyrant from which nothing frees us. We must suit ourselves to its fantastic tastes. But being compelled to live under its foolish laws, the wise man is never the first to follow, nor the last to keep it.

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  Wise, Fashion, Men

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• Our achievements of today are but the sum total of our thoughts of yesterday.

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  Yesterday, Achievement, Today

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• A man does not show his greatness by being at one extremity, but rather by touching both at once.

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  Greatness, Men, Touching

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• The sum of a man's problems come from his inability to be alone in a silent room.

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  Men, Inability, Rooms

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• Imagination is the deceptive part in man, the mistress of error and falsehood.

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  Truth, Lying, Men

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• We know the truth not only through our reason but also through our heart. It is through the latter that we know first principles, and reason, which has nothing to do with it, tries in vain to refute them.

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  Truth, Heart, Trying

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

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• When I see the blind and wretched state of men, when I survey the whole universe in its deadness, and man left to himself with no light, as though lost in this corner of the universe without knowing who put him there, what he has to do, or what will become of him when he dies, incapable of knowing anything, I am moved to terror, like a man transported in his sleep to some terrifying desert island, who wakes up quite lost, with no means of escape. Then I marvel that so wretched a state does not drive people to despair.

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  Atheist, Mean, Sleep

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• Dull minds are never either intuitive or mathematical.

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  Mind, Dull, Mathematical

  Blaise Pascal (2010). “Thoughts, Letters & Minor Works”, p.8, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Our soul is cast into a body, where it finds number, time, dimension. Thereupon it reasons, and calls this nature necessity, and can believe nothing else.

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  Time, Believe, Numbers

  Blaise Pascal (2010). “Thoughts, Letters & Minor Works”, p.83, Cosimo, Inc.

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• One must know oneself. If this does not serve to discover truth, it at least serves as a rule of life and there is nothing better.

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  Inspirational, Being Yourself, Discovery

  Blaise Pascal (2013). “Pensées”, p.15, Courier Corporation

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• To understand is to forgive.

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  Forgiveness, Understanding, Forgiving

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• How hollow is the heart of man, and how full of excrement!

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  Heart, Men, Hollow

  "Pensées" by Blaise Pascal, 1669.

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• Vanity is but the surface.

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  Vanity, Surface

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• It is the conduct of God, who disposes all things kindly, to put religion into the mind by reason, and into the heart by grace.

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  Heart, Grace, Mind

  Blaise Pascal (2010). “Thoughts, Letters & Minor Works”, p.68, Cosimo, Inc.

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• We are only falsehood, duplicity, contradiction; we both conceal and disguise ourselves from ourselves.

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  Lying, Duplicity, Dishonesty

  Blaise Pascal (2010). “Thoughts, Letters and Minor Works”, p.127, Cosimo, Inc.

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• If there is a God, He is infinitely incomprehensible, since, having, neither parts nor limits, He has no affinity to us. We are then incapable of knowing either what He is or if He is. [So] you must wager. Let us weigh the gain and the loss in wagering that God is. Let us estimate these two chances. If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager then without hesitation that he is.

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  Atheist, Loss, Knowing

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• If man made himself the first object of study, he would see how incapable he is of going further. How can a part know the whole?

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  Men, Firsts, Study

  Blaise Pascal (2010). “Thoughts, Letters & Minor Works”, p.30, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Continuous eloquence wearies.

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  Eloquence

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

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• If it is an extraordinary blindness to live without investigating what we are, it is a terrible one to live an evil life, while believing in God

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  Believe, Evil, Blindness

  Blaise Pascal (2010). “Thoughts, Letters and Minor Works”, p.165, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Without Jesus Christ man must be in vice and misery with Jesus Christ man is free from vice and misery in Him is all our virtue and all our happiness. Apart from Him there is but vice, misery, darkness, death, despair.

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  Jesus, Men, Darkness

  Blaise Pascal (2007). “Thoughts”, p.177, Cosimo, Inc.

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• When we would show any one that he is mistaken, our best course is to observe on what side he considers the subject,--for his view of if is generally right on this side,--and admit to him that he is right so far. He will be satisfied with this acknowledgment, that he was not wrong in his judgment, but only inadvertent in not looking at the whole case.

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  Views, Sides, Argument

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• Passion cannot be beautiful without excess; one either loves too much or not enough.

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  Beautiful, Passion, Excess

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• Let man reawake and consider what he is compared with the reality of things; regard himself lost in this remote corner of Nature; and from the tiny cell where he lodges, to wit the Universe, weigh at their true worth earth, kingdoms, towns, himself. What is a man face to face with infinity?

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  Reality, Men, Cells

  Blaise Pascal (1950). “Pensées”

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