Tag: Blaise Pascal
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We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.
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When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.
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We only consult the ear because the heart is wanting.
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The last act is bloody, however pleasant all the rest of the play is: a little earth is thrown at last upon our head, and that is the end forever.
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Words differently arranged have a different meaning, and meanings differently arranged have different effects.
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The consciousness of the falsity of present pleasures, and the ignorance of the vanity of absent pleasures, cause inconstancy.
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Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.
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Little things console us because little things afflict us.
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One must know oneself. If this does not serve to discover truth, it at least serves as a rule of life and there is nothing better.
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We like security: we like the pope to be infallible in matters of faith, and grave doctors to be so in moral questions so that we can feel reassured.
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