Tag: Blaise Pascal
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Happiness is neither without us nor within us. It is in God, both without us and within us.
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Too much and too little wine. Give him none, he cannot find truth; give him too much, the same.
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We view things not only from different sides, but with different eyes; we have no wish to find them alike.
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The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble.
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Can anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of a river and his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have not quarrelled with him?
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If man made himself the first object of study, he would see how incapable he is of going further. How can a part know the whole?
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Between us and heaven or hell there is only life, which is the frailest thing in the world.
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He that takes truth for his guide, and duty for his end, may safely trust to God’s providence to lead him aright.
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Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it.
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It is not good to be too free. It is not good to have everything one wants.
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