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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

If a soldier or labourer complain of the hardship of his lot, set him to do nothing. — Blaise Pascal

The Church limits her sacramental services to the faithful. Christ gave Himself upon the cross a ransom for all. — Blaise Pascal

Globalization is incredibly efficient but also so far incredibly unjust. — Pascal Lamy

The last thing one knows when writing a book is what to put first. — 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

You can never have for yourself someone who isn't on good terms with himself. — Pascal Mercier

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

You should always say exactly what you think directly to people all the time, — Amy Pascal

Imagination is the deceptive part in man, the mistress of error and falsehood. — Blaise Pascal

We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart. — Blaise Pascal

What reason for vanity in being plunged into impenetrable darkness? — Blaise Pascal

To deny, to believe, and to doubt well, are to a man what the race is to a horse. — 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

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

Sometimes, we are afraid of something because we're afraid of something else. — Pascal Mercier

The virtue of a man ought to be measured not by his extraordinary exertions, but by his every-day conduct. — Blaise Pascal

We would willingly be cowards in order to acquire the reputation of being brave. — Blaise Pascal

I love women. I've always cared about making movies about women my entire career. — Amy 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

We never do evil so fully and cheerfully as when we do it out of conscience. — Blaise Pascal

Mediocrity makes the most of its native possessions. — Blaise Pascal

Desire and force between them are responsible for all our actions; desire causes our voluntary acts, force our involuntary. — Blaise Pascal

The eternal Being is forever if he is at all. — 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

God instituted prayer to communicate to creatures the dignity of causality. — 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

It's always difficult to tell someone when they're still in love with someone that I think they're going in the wrong way. — Pascal Chaumeil

Having been unable to strengthen justice, we have justified strength. — Blaise Pascal

Noble deeds that are concealed are most esteemed. — Blaise Pascal

Go is most fun I've had with a compiled PL since I've discovered Turbo Pascal as a kid. — Bojan Markovic

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

We run heedlessly into the abyss after putting something in front of us to stop us seeing it. — 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

We are troubled only by the fears which we, and not nature, give ourselves. — Blaise Pascal

Brave deeds are wasted when hidden. — Blaise Pascal

There are people who lie simply for the sake of lying. — Blaise Pascal

A slew of cognitive traits predisposes us to faith, — Pascal Boyer

Muhammad established a religion by putting his enemies to death; Jesus Christ by commanding his followers to lay down their lives. — Blaise Pascal

Most of man's trouble comes from his inability to be still. — Blaise Pascal

The more I see of Mankind, the more I prefer my dog. — Blaise Pascal

The human heart was undeniably the stupidest organ in the body. — Francine Pascal

I have made this letter longer than usual, only because I have not had the time to make it shorter. — Blaise Pascal

I always loved reading. Growing up, my favorite book was 'A Child's Garden of Verses,' by Robert Louis Stevenson. — Francine 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

The law required what it could not give. Grace gives that which it requires. — Blaise Pascal

Earnestness is enthusiasm tempered by reason. — Blaise Pascal

It is right that what is just should be obeyed. It is necessary that what is strongest should be obeyed. — Blaise Pascal

It is not good to be too free. It is not good to have everything one wants. — 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

Eloquence; it requires the pleasant and the real; but the pleasant must itself be drawn from the true. — Blaise Pascal

Guilt is a very good thing if it is shared by others. — Pascal Bruckner

All of our reasoning ends in surrender to feeling. — Blaise Pascal

What is with those Wakefield women that makes them think they're better than everybody?' Ken asked. — Francine Pascal

Oooh. Barbie has a brain, huh?" The smile was gone. His voice low, gravelly.
"Oooh. Ken has an attitude," she snapped back. — Francine Pascal

The sum of a man's problems come from his inability to be alone in a silent room. — Blaise Pascal

The world is ruled by force, not by opinion; but opinion uses force. — Blaise Pascal

Le coeur a ses raisons que la raison ne connait point. French. Pascal. The heart has its reasons, whereof reason knows nothing. — Madeleine L'Engle

The more intelligent a man is, the more originality he discovers in others. — Blaise Pascal

Creativity is a journey with many destinations. — Kaye Pascal

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

Descartes useless and unnecessary. — 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

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

The greatest single distinguishing feature of the omnipotence of God is that our imagination gets lost thinking about it. — Blaise Pascal

Teling a little would ultimately mean telling a lot. — Francine Pascal

The God of the infinite is the God of the infinitesimal. — 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

What Pascal said of an effective religion is true of any effective doctrine: it must be contrary to nature, to common sense and to pleasure. — Eric Hoffer

Elizabeth remembered how foolish everyone had felt when they discovered Mr. Mercandy was the victim of a stroke and not a zombie as they'd thought. — Francine Pascal

Kind words don't cost much. Yet they accomplish much. — Blaise Pascal

May God never abandon me. — Blaise Pascal

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

If you turned sideways and stuck your tongue out, you could probably pass for a zipper. — Francine Pascal

If a man is not made for God, why is he happy only in God? — 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

Our lives are rivers, gliding free to that unfathomed, boundless sea, the silent grave! — Pascal Mercier

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