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The present is never the mark...

The present is never the mark of our designs. We use both past and present as our means and instruments, but the future only as our object and aim.

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En un mot, l'homme conna|"t q...

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.

Blaise Pascal 915 quotes

We sometimes learn more from ...

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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It is superstitious to put on...

It is superstitious to put one's hopes in formalities, but arrogant to refuse to submit to them.

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The more intelligence one has...

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

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Force and not opinion is the ...

Force and not opinion is the queen of the world; but it is opinion that uses the force. [Fr., La force est la reine du monde, et non pas l'opinion; mais l'opinion est celle qui use de la force.]

Blaise Pascal 915 quotes

When a man who accepts the Ch...

When a man who accepts the Christian doctrine lives unworthily of it, it is much clearer to say he is a bad Christian than to say he is not a Christian.

Blaise Pascal 915 quotes

Between us, and Hell or Heave...

Between us, and Hell or Heaven, there is only life between the two, which is the most fragile thing in the world.
Variant: Between us and heaven or hell there is only life, which is the frailest thing in the world.

Blaise Pascal 915 quotes

To call a king "Prince" is pl...

To call a king "Prince" is pleasing, because it diminishes his rank.

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Look somewhere else for someo...

Look somewhere else for someone who can follow you in your researches about numbers. For my part, I confess that they are far beyond me, and I am competent only to admire them.

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There would be too great dark...

There would be too great darkness, if truth had not visible signs.

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Without the knowledge of our ...

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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Man is full of desires: he lo...

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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Just as I do not know where I...

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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Notre nature est dans le mouv...

Notre nature est dans le mouvement; le repos entier est la mort. Our nature consists in movement; absolute rest is death.

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Our true dignity consists — i...

Our true dignity consists — in thought. Thence we must derive our elevation, not from space or duration. Let us endeavor then to think well; this is the principle of morals.

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Things have different qualiti...

Things have different qualities, and the soul different inclinations; for nothing is simple which is presented to the soul, and the soul never presents itself simply to any object. Hence it comes that we weep and laugh at the same thing.

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The authority of reason is fa...

The authority of reason is far more imperious than that of a master; for he who disobeys the one is unhappy, but he who disobeys the other is a fool.

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Faith affirms many things, re...

Faith affirms many things, respecting which the senses are silent, but nothing that they deny. It is superior, but never opposed to their testimony

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Je ne crois que les histoires...

Je ne crois que les histoires dont les te moins se feraient e gorger. I only believe in histories told by witnesses who would have had their throats slit.

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