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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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• It is not in Montaigne, but in myself, that I find all that I see in him.

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  Reading, Literature

  Blaise Pascal (2007). “Thoughts”, p.24, Cosimo, Inc.

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• The gospel to me is simply irresistible.

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  Irresistible

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• It is dangerous to explain too clearly to man how like he is to the animals without pointing out his greatness. It is also dangerous to make too much of his greatness without his vileness. It is still more dangerous to leave him in ignorance of both, but it is most valuable to represent both to him. Man must not be allowed to believe that he is equal either to animals or to angels, nor to be unaware of either, but he must know both.

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  Believe, Ignorance, Angel

  Blaise Pascal (2008). “Human Happiness”, p.28, Penguin UK

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• We must kill them in war, just because they live beyond the river. If they lived on this side, we would be called murderers.

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  Memorial Day, War, Rivers

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• Nothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest, without passion, without business, without entertainment, without care. It is then that he recognizes that he is empty, insufficient, dependent, ineffectual. From the depths of his soul now comes at once boredom, gloom, sorrow, chagrin, resentment and despair.

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  Passion, Men, Boredom

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• Instinct teaches us to look for happiness outside ourselves.

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  Looks, Instinct, Teach

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• Anyone who found the secret of rejoicing when things go well without being annoyed when they go badly would have found the point.

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  Annoyed, Secret, Found

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

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• There is nothing that we can see on earth which does not either show the wretchedness of man or the mercy of God. One either sees the powerlessness of man without God, or the strength of man with God.

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  Men, Mercy Of God, Doe

  Blaise Pascal, James M. Houston (2006). “The Mind on Fire: Faith for the Skeptical and Indifferent”, p.53, David C Cook

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• If a man loves a woman for her beauty, does he love her? No; for the smallpox, which destroys her beauty without killing her, causes his love to cease. And if any one loves me for my judgment or my memory, does he really love me? No; for I can lose these qualities without ceasing to be.

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  Love, Memories, Men

  Blaise Pascal (1849). “Thoughts of Blaise Pascal”, p.127

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• What amazes me most is to see that everyone is not amazed at his own weakness.

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  Weakness, Amazed

  "Human Happiness".

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• The art of subversion, of revolution, is to dislodge established customs by probing down to their origins in order to show how they lack authority and justice.

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  Art, Order, Justice

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

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• Good deeds, when concealed, are the most admirable.

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  Deeds, Good Deeds, Admirable

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• Kind words produce their own image in men's souls; and a beautiful image it is. They soothe and quiet and comfort the hearer. They shame him out of his sour, morose, unkind feelings. We have not yet begun to use kind words in such abundance as they ought to be used.

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  Beautiful, Uplifting, Kindness

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• It is your own assent to yourself, and the constant voice of your own reason, and not of others, that should make you believe.

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  Believe, Voice, Belief

  Blaise Pascal (2016). “Pensées”, p.108, Open Road Media

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• The stream is always purer at its source.

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  Purity, Source, Streams

  "Lettres Provinciales". IV, 1657.

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• For nature is an image of Grace, and visible miracles are images of the invisible.

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  Nature, Miracle, Grace

  Blaise Pascal, W. F. Trotter, T. S. Eliot (2003). “Pensees”, p.190, Courier Corporation

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• There are two equally dangerous extremes-to shut reason out, and to let nothing else in.

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  Two, Reason, Dangerous

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• What part of us feels pleasure? Is it our hand, our arm, our flesh, or our blood? It must obviously be something immaterial.

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  Blood, Hands, Flesh

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

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• Force rules the world-not opinion; but it is opinion that makes use of force.

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  Use, World, Opinion

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• We must keep our thought secret, and judge everything by it, while talking like the people.

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  Talking, People, Judging

  Blaise Pascal (2007). “Thoughts”, p.117, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Who knows if this other half of life where we think we're awake is not another sleep a little different from the first.

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  Sleep, Thinking, Different

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• When I have occasionally set myself to consider the different distractions of men, the pains and perils to which they expose themselves I have discovered that all the unhappiness of men arises from one single fact, that they cannot stay quietly in their own chamber.

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  Pain, Men, Facts

  Blaise Pascal (2007). “Thoughts”, p.52, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Eloquence is a way of saying things in such a way, first, that those to whom we speak may listen to them without pain and with pleasure, and second, that they feel themselves interested, so that self-love leads them more willingly to reflection upon it.

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  Pain, Reflection, Self

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• It is right that what is just should be obeyed. It is necessary that what is strongest should be obeyed.

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  Obedience, Should, Strongest

  Blaise Pascal (2013). “Pascal's Pensees”, p.88, Simon and Schuster

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