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Reverend Fathers, my letters ...

Reverend Fathers, my letters did not usually follow each other at such close intervals, nor were they so long.... This one would not be so long had I but the leisure to make it shorter.

Blaise Pascal 915 quotes

The mind must not be forced; ...

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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The married should not forget...

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

Blaise Pascal 915 quotes

Imagination cannot make fools...

Imagination cannot make fools wise, but it makes them happy, as against reason, which only makes its friends wretched: one covers them with glory, the other with shame.

Blaise Pascal 915 quotes

Do little things as if they w...

Do little things as if they were great, because of the majesty of the Lord Jesus Christ who dwells in thee.

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There was once in man a true ...

There was once in man a true happiness of which there now remain to him only the mark and empty trace, which he in vain tries to fill from all his surroundings, seeking from things absent the help he does not obtain in things present.

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...for the truth is always ol...

...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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Opinion is the queen of the w...

Opinion is the queen of the world.

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The multitude which is not br...

The multitude which is not brought to act as a unity, is confusion. That unity which has not its origin in the multitude is tyranny.

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There should be in eloquence ...

There should be in eloquence that which is pleasing and that which is real; but that which is pleasing should itself be real.

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All of our miseries prove our...

All of our miseries prove our greatness. They are the miseries of a dethroned monarch.

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True eloquence scorns eloquen...

True eloquence scorns eloquence.

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One-half of life is admitted ...

One-half of life is admitted by us to be passed in sleep, in which, however, it may appear otherwise, we have no perception of truth, and all our feelings are delusions; who knows but the other half of life, in which we think we are awake, is a sleep also, but in some respects different from the other, and from which we wake when we, as we call it, sleep. As a man dreams often that he is dreaming, crowding one dreamy delusion on another.

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The heart has its order, the ...

The heart has its order, the mind has its own, which uses principles and demonstrations. The heart has a different one. We do not prove that we ought to be loved by setting out in order the causes of love; that would be absurd.

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Vanity is so anchored in the ...

Vanity is so anchored in the heart of man that a soldier, a soldier's servant, a cook, a porter brags and wishes to have his admirers. Even philosophers wish for them. Those who write against vanity want to have the glory of having written well; and those who read it desire the glory of having read it. I who write this have perhaps this desire, and perhaps those who will read it.

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From whence comes it that a c...

From whence comes it that a cripple in body does not irritate us, and that a crippled mind enrages us? It is because a cripple sees that we go right, and a distorted mind says that it is we who go astray. But for that we should have more pity and less rage.

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Man is only a reed, the weake...

Man is only a reed, the weakest in nature, but he is a thinking reed. There is no need for the whole universe to take up arms to crush him: a vapour, a drop of water is enough to kill him. but even if the universe were to crush him, man would still be nobler than his slayer, because he knows that he is dying and the advantage the universe has over him. The universe knows none of this.

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Those who are accustomed to j...

Those who are accustomed to judge by feeling do not understand the process of reasoning, because they want to comprehend at a glance and are not used to seeking for first principles. Those, on the other hand, who are accustomed to reason from first principles do not understand matters of feeling at all, because they look for first principles and are unable to comprehend at a glance.

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[On vanity:] The nose of Cleo...

[On vanity:] The nose of Cleopatra: if it had been shorter, the face of the earth would have changed.

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Nothing is thoroughly approve...

Nothing is thoroughly approved but mediocrity. The majority has established this, and it fixes its fangs on whatever gets beyond it either way.

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