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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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The sweetness of glory is so g...

The sweetness of glory is so great that, join it to what we will, even to death, we love it.

Blaise Pascal 915 quotes

I take it as a matter not to b...

I take it as a matter not to be disputed, that if all knew what each said of the other, there would not be four friends in the world. This seems proved by the quarrels and disputes caused by the disclosures which are occasionally made.

Blaise Pascal 915 quotes

It is a dangerous experiment t...

It is a dangerous experiment to call in gratitude as an ally to love. Love is a debt which inclination always pays, obligation never.

Blaise Pascal 915 quotes

All men naturally hate one ano...

All men naturally hate one another. I hold it a fact, that if men knew exactly what one says of the other, there would not be four friends in the world.

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When malice has reason on its ...

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.

Blaise Pascal 915 quotes

Mediocrity makes the most of i...

Mediocrity makes the most of its native possessions.

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When we do not know the truth ...

When we do not know the truth of a thing, it is good that there should exist a common error which determines the mind of man, as, for example, the moon, to which is attributed the change of seasons, the progress of diseases, etc. For the chief malady of man is a restless curiosity about things which he cannot understand; and it is not so bad for him to be in error as to be curious to no purpose.

Blaise Pascal 915 quotes

To scorn philosophy is truly t...

To scorn philosophy is truly to philosophize.

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To ridicule philosophy is trul...

To ridicule philosophy is truly philosophical.
[Fr., Se moquer de la philosophie c'est vraiment philosophe.]

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That dog is mine said those po...

That dog is mine said those poor children; that place in the sun is mine; such is the beginning and type of usurpation throughout the earth.
[Fr., Ce chien est a moi, disaient ces pauvres enfants; c'est la ma place au soleil. Voila le commencement et l'image de l'usurpation de toute la terre.]

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Pride counterbalances all our ...

Pride counterbalances all our miseries, for it either hides them, or, if it discloses them, boasts of that disclosure. Pride has such a thorough possession of us, even in the midst of our miseries and faults, that we are prepared to sacrifice life with joy, if it may but be talked of.

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The mind naturally makes progr...

The mind naturally makes progress, and the will naturally clings to objects; so that for want of right objects, it will attach itself to wrong ones.

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The stream is always purer at ...

The stream is always purer at its source.
[Fr., Les choses valent toujours mieux dans leur source.]

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The authority of reason is far...

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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The weakness of human reason a...

The weakness of human reason appears more evidently in those who know it not than in those who know it.

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Rivers are roads that move and...

Rivers are roads that move and carry us whither we wish to go.
[Fr., Les rivieres sont des chemins qui marchant et qui portent ou l'on veut aller.]

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Death is easier to bear withou...

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

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Death itself is less painful w...

Death itself is less painful when it comes upon us unawares than the bare contemplation of it, even when danger is far distant.

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Is it courage in a dying man t...

Is it courage in a dying man to go, in weakness and in agony, to affront an almighty and eternal God?

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