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Equality of possessions is no doubt right, but, as men could not make might obey right, they have made right obey might.
— Blaise Pascal
Amusement allures and deceives us and leads us down imperceptibly in thoughtlessness to the grave
— Blaise Pascal
Imagination disposes of everything; it creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which are everything in this world.
— Blaise Pascal
Good deeds, when concealed, are the most admirable.
— Blaise Pascal
If a soldier or labourer complain of the hardship of his lot, set him to do nothing.
— Blaise Pascal
Curiosity is only vanity. We usually only want to know something so that we can talk about it.
— Blaise Pascal
The Church limits her sacramental services to the faithful. Christ gave Himself upon the cross a ransom for all.
— Blaise Pascal
(Man,) the glory and the scandal of the universe.
— Blaise Pascal
The present letter is a very long one, simply because I had no leisure to make it shorter.
— Blaise Pascal
I know whom I have believed.
— Blaise Pascal
To go beyond the bounds of moderation is to outrage humanity.
— Blaise Pascal
Little things comfort us because little things distress us.
— Blaise Pascal
Two infinites. Mean. When we read too quickly or too slowly we do not understand anything.
— Blaise Pascal
71 Too much and too little wine. Give him none, he cannot find truth; give him too much, the same.
— Blaise Pascal
Dull minds are never either intuitive or mathematical.
— Blaise Pascal
Thought makes the whole dignity of man; therefore endeavor to think well, that is the only morality.
— Blaise Pascal
The whole title by which you possess your property, is not a title of nature but of a human institution.
— Blaise Pascal
There are vices which have no hold upon us, but in connection with others; and which, when you cut down the trunk, fall like the branches.
— Blaise Pascal
Nature is an infinite sphere whose center is everywhere and whose circumference is nowhere.
— Blaise Pascal
Mutual cheating is the foundation of society.
— Blaise Pascal
The two foundations; one inward, the other outward; grace, miracles; both supernatural.
— Blaise Pascal
Look for the truth, it wants to be found ...
— Blaise Pascal
The self is hateful.
— Blaise Pascal
Man's grandeur is that he knows himself to be miserable.
— Blaise Pascal
How shall one who is so weak in his childhood become really strong when he grows older? We only change our fancies.
— Blaise Pascal
Most of man's trouble comes from his inability to be still.
— Blaise Pascal
Mediocrity makes the most of its native possessions.
— Blaise Pascal
We run carelessly to the precipice, after we have put something before us to prevent us seeing it.
— Blaise Pascal
Man's true nature being lost, everything becomes his nature; as, his true good being lost, everything becomes his good.
— Blaise Pascal
The eternal Being is forever if he is at all.
— Blaise Pascal
Muhammad established a religion by putting his enemies to death; Jesus Christ by commanding his followers to lay down their lives.
— Blaise Pascal
There are people who lie simply for the sake of lying.
— Blaise Pascal
If you want to be a real seeker of truth, you need to, at least once in your lifetime, doubt in, as much as it's possible, in everything.
— Blaise Pascal
Brave deeds are wasted when hidden.
— Blaise Pascal
The heart has its reasons which reason knows not.
— Blaise Pascal
All men have happiness as their object: there is no exception. However different the means they employ, they all aim at the same end.
— Blaise Pascal
I made this [letter] very long, because I did not have the leisure to make it shorter.
— Blaise Pascal
Symmetry is what we see at a glance; based on the fact that there is no reason for any difference ...
— Blaise Pascal
It is much better to know something about everything than to know everything about one thing.
— Blaise Pascal
Christianity is strange: it requires human beings to recognize that they are vile and even abominable.
— Blaise Pascal
All of human unhappiness comes from one single thing: not knowing how to remain at rest in a room.
— Blaise Pascal
If you gain, you gain all. If you lose, you lose nothing. Wager then, without hesitation, that He exsists.
— Blaise Pascal
Even those who write against fame wish for the fame of having written well, and those who read their works desire the fame of having read them.
— Blaise Pascal
As men who naturally understand their own condition avoid nothing so much as rest, so there is nothing they leave undone in seeking turmoil.
— Blaise Pascal
If there were only one religion, God would indeed be manifest.
— Blaise Pascal
Noble deeds that are concealed are most esteemed.
— Blaise Pascal
If you want others to have a good opinion of you, say nothing.
— Blaise Pascal
Continuity in everything is unpleasant.
— Blaise Pascal
I lay it down as a fact that if all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world.
— Blaise Pascal
Nothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest, without a passion, without business, without entertainment, without care.
— Blaise Pascal
The heart has its reasons where reason knows not.
— Blaise Pascal
Earnestness is enthusiasm tempered by reason.
— Blaise Pascal
All the troubles of life come upon us because we refuse to sit quietly for a while each day in our rooms.
— Blaise Pascal
No religion except ours has taught that man is born in sin; none of the philosophical sects has admitted it; none therefore has spoken the truth
— Blaise Pascal
That which makes us go so far for love is that we never think that we might have need of anything besides that which we love.
— Blaise Pascal
The heart has reasons of which the mind knows nothing.
— Blaise Pascal
Eloquence; it requires the pleasant and the real; but the pleasant must itself be drawn from the true.
— Blaise Pascal
Man's greatness lies in his power of thought.
— Blaise Pascal
That we must love one God only is a thing so evident that it does not require miracles to prove it.
— Blaise Pascal
Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.
— Blaise Pascal
If a man is not made for God, why is he happy only in God?
— Blaise Pascal
It is right that what is just should be obeyed. It is necessary that what is strongest should be obeyed.
— Blaise Pascal
Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too; this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and sees distinctly what it loves.
— Blaise Pascal
I have made this letter longer than usual, only because I have not had the time to make it shorter.
— Blaise Pascal
All of our reasoning ends in surrender to feeling.
— Blaise Pascal
Descartes useless and unnecessary.
— Blaise Pascal
We run heedlessly into the abyss after putting something in front of us to stop us seeing it.
— Blaise Pascal
He who cannot believe is cursed, for he reveals by his unbelief that God has not chosen to give him grace.
— Blaise Pascal
Men are so necessarily mad, that not to be mad would amount to another form of madness.
— Blaise Pascal
Faith is a sounder guide than reason. Reason can only go so far, but faith has no limits.
— Blaise Pascal
The God of the infinite is the God of the infinitesimal.
— Blaise Pascal
Desire and force between them are responsible for all our actions; desire causes our voluntary acts, force our involuntary.
— Blaise Pascal
Kind words don't cost much. Yet they accomplish much.
— Blaise Pascal
The more I see of Mankind, the more I prefer my dog.
— Blaise Pascal
Man is neither angel nor beast, and the misfortune is that he who wishes to be an angel becomes a beast' (Blaise Pascal).
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The greatest single distinguishing feature of the omnipotence of God is that our imagination gets lost thinking about it.
— Blaise Pascal
The virtue of a man ought to be measured not by his extraordinary exertions, but by his every-day conduct.
— Blaise Pascal
it is so inevitable that men will be fools that it is only by another shift of folly that one might not be
— Blaise Pascal
May God never abandon me.
— Blaise Pascal