Tag: Blaise Pascal
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The sensitivity of men to small matters, and their indifference to great ones, indicates a strange inversion.
Blaise Pascal
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Thus so wretched is man that he would weary even without any cause for weariness… and so frivolous is he that, though full of a thousand reasons for weariness, the least thing, such as playing billiards or hitting a ball, is sufficient enough to amuse him.
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Desire and force between them are responsible for all our actions; desire causes our voluntary acts, force our involuntary.
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Noble deeds that are concealed are most esteemed.
Blaise Pascal
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You always admire what you really don’t understand.
Blaise Pascal
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It is the fight alone that pleases us, not the victory.
Blaise Pascal
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Time heals griefs and quarrels, for we change and are no longer the same persons. Neither the offender nor the offended are any more themselves.
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Eloquence is a painting of the thoughts.
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We conceal it from ourselves in vain – we must always love something. In those matters seemingly removed from love, the feeling is secretly to be found, and man cannot possibly live for a moment without it.
Blaise Pascal
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We sail within a vast sphere, ever drifting in uncertainty, driven from end to end.
Blaise Pascal