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Seeing too much to deny and t...

Seeing too much to deny and too little to be sure, I am in a state to be pitied.

Blaise Pascal 915 quotes

Undoubtedly equality of goods...

Undoubtedly equality of goods is just; but, being unable to cause might to obey justice, men has made it just to obey might. Unable to strengthen justice, they have justified might--so that the just and the strong should unite, and there should be peace, which is the sovereign good.

Blaise Pascal 915 quotes

When we wish to correct with ...

When we wish to correct with advantage, and to show another that he errs, we must notice from what side he views the matter, for on that side it is usually true.

Blaise Pascal 915 quotes

Most of the evils of life ari...

Most of the evils of life arise from man's being unable to sit still in a room.

Blaise Pascal 915 quotes

Let a man choose what conditi...

Let a man choose what condition he will, and let him accumulate around him all the goods and gratifications seemingly calculated to make him happy in it; if that man is left at any time without occupation or amusement, and reflects on what he is, the meagre, languid felicity of his present lot will not bear him up. He will turn necessarily to gloomy anticipations of the future; and unless his occupation calls him out of himself, he is inevitably wretched.

Blaise Pascal 915 quotes

Nature has made all her truth...

Nature has made all her truths independent of one another. Our art makes one dependent on the other. But this is not natural. Each keeps its own place.

Blaise Pascal 915 quotes

The last thing that we find i...

The last thing that we find in making a book is to know what we must put first.

Blaise Pascal 915 quotes

The weakness of human reason ...

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

Blaise Pascal 915 quotes

Equality of possessions is no...

Equality of possessions is no doubt right, but, as men could not make might obey right, they have made right obey might.

Blaise Pascal 915 quotes

It is not possible to have re...

It is not possible to have reasonable grounds for not believing in miracles.

Blaise Pascal 915 quotes

I cannot forgive Descartes. I...

I cannot forgive Descartes. In all his philosophy he would have been quite willing to dispense with God. But he had to make Him give a fillip to set the world in motion; beyond this, he has no further need of God.

Blaise Pascal 915 quotes

Nothing is so insufferable to...

Nothing is so insufferable to man as to be completely at rest, without passions, without business, without diversion, without study. He then feels his nothingness, his forlornness, his insufficiency, his dependence, his weakness, his emptiness. There will immediately arise from the depth of his heart weariness, gloom, sadness, fretfulness, vexation, despair.

Blaise Pascal 915 quotes

Some vices only lay hold of u...

Some vices only lay hold of us by means of others, and these, like branches, fall on removal of the trunk.

Blaise Pascal 915 quotes

If you believe in God you are...

If you believe in God you are at no disadvantage in this life, and at considerable advantage in the next. If you do not believe, but find in the next that there was a next, you are most unfortunate!

Blaise Pascal 915 quotes

What a chimera then is man. W...

What a chimera then is man. What a novelty! What a monster... what a contradiction, what a prodigy

Blaise Pascal 915 quotes

Law was once introduced witho...

Law was once introduced without reason, and has become reasonable.

Blaise Pascal 915 quotes

Quelque e tendue d'esprit qu...

Quelque e tendue d'esprit que l'on ait, l'on n'est capable que d'une grande passion. However vast a man's spirit, he is only capable of one great passion.

Blaise Pascal 915 quotes

What is it, in your opinion, ...

What is it, in your opinion, to be a great nobleman? It is to be master of several objects that men covet, and thus to be able to satisfy the wants and the desires of many. It is these wants and these desires that attract them towards you, and that make them submit to you: were it not for these, they would not even look at you; but they hope, by these services... to obtain from you some part of the good which they desire, and of which they see that you have the disposal.

Blaise Pascal 915 quotes

I would inquire of reasonable...

I would inquire of reasonable persons whether this principle: Matter is naturally wholly incapable of thought, and this other: I think, therefore I am, are in fact the same in the mind of Descartes, and in that of St. Augustine, who said the same thing twelve hundred years before.

Blaise Pascal 915 quotes

Civil wars are the greatest o...

Civil wars are the greatest of evils. They are inevitable, if we wish to reward merit, for all will say that they are meritorious.

Blaise Pascal 915 quotes

Добрые, щедрые, великодушные: 6 советских актеров, которые были всеобщими любимчиками

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Советских актёров часто ставят в пример как образец духовной силы, национальной гордости и внутренней красоты. Они стали символами эпохи, носителями культуры и нравственности. Но, как известно, за кул...

Десять кинозвезд, которые отлично поют

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Актеры — люди творческие, но кто бы мог подумать, что некоторые из них скрывают прекрасный голос. В эпоху раннего Голливуда актеров с музыкальными способностями было немало — это считалось скорее норм...

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Расскажем, как сложилась судьба актеров, которые начинали сниматься еще в детстве.
Остаться на вершине в Голливуде удаётся не каждому, особенно если путь начался в детстве. Одни актёры теряются из-за...

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Два года назад отечественное телевидение столкнулось с беспрецедентной кадровой тектоникой — целая группа ярких и узнаваемых ведущих стремительно исчезла с экранов федеральных каналов. Эти лица долгие...

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Кира Найтли на страницах журнала к выходу фильма «Пиджак», 2005. Следы динозавра, раскопанные в русле реки Палакси. Техас. США. 1952г. Самая большая женщина рядом с самым маленьким мужчиной, 1922 год....