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Engrave this Quote I do not admire a virtue like valour when it is pushed to excess, if I do not see at the same time the excess of the opposite virtue, as one does in Epaminondas, who displayed extreme valour and extreme benevolence. For otherwise it is not an ascent, but a fall. We do not display our greatness by placing ourselves at one extremity, but rather by being at both at the same time, and filling up the whole of the space between them.
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Engrave this Quote The present letter is a very long one, simply because I had no leisure to make it shorter.
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Engrave this Quote On vanity: The nose of Cleopatra: if it had been shorter, the face of the earth would have changed.
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Admiration
Engrave this Quote Animals do not admire each other. A horse does not admire its companion.
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Art
Engrave this Quote What a strange vanity painting is; it attracts admiration by resembling the original, we do not admire.
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Authors & Writing
Engrave this Quote I have made this letter a rather long one, only because I didn't have the leisure to make it shorter.
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Engrave this Quote If I had more time I would write a shorter letter.
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Engrave this Quote The last thing we decide in writing a book is what to put first.
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Beauty
Engrave this Quote Beauty is a harmonious relation between something in our nature and the quality of the object which delights us.
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Belief
Engrave this Quote Belief is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved, what harm will come to you if you gamble on its truth and it proves false? If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists.
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Engrave this Quote If we let ourselves believe that man began with divine grace, that he forfeited this by sin, and that he can be redeemed only by divine grace through the crucified Christ, then we shall find peace of mind never granted to philosophers. He who cannot believe is cursed, for he reveals by his unbelief that God has not chosen to give him grace.
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Bible, The
Engrave this Quote The gospel to me is simply irresistible.
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Boredom
Engrave this Quote Man finds nothing so intolerable as to be in a state of complete rest, without passions, without occupation, without diversion, without effort. Then he feels his nullity, loneliness, inadequacy, dependence, helplessness, emptiness.
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Choice
Engrave this Quote The highest order of mind is accused of folly, as well as the lowest. Nothing is thoroughly approved but mediocrity. The majority has established this, and it fixes its fangs on whatever gets beyond it either way.
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Christianity
Engrave this Quote Jesus is the God whom we can approach without pride and before whom we can humble ourselves without despair.
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Conflict
Engrave this Quote We are only falsehood, duplicity, contradiction; we both conceal and disguise ourselves from ourselves.
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Engrave this Quote The war existing between the senses and reason.
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Conscience
Engrave this Quote Men never do evil so fully and cheerfully as when we do it out of conscience.
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Contentment
Engrave this Quote On the occasions when I have pondered over men's various activities, the dangers and worries they are exposed to at court or at war, from which so many quarrels, passions, risky, often ill-conceived actions and so on are born, I have often said that man's unhappiness springs from one thing alone, his incapacity to stay quietly in one room. A man wealthy enough for life's needs would never leave home to go to sea or beseige some fortress if he knew how to stay at home and enjoy it...
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-Blaise Pascal, Pense
Contradiction
Engrave this Quote Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth.
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Death
Engrave this Quote The last act is bloody, however fine the rest of the play. They throw earth over your head and it is finished forever.
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-Blaise Pascal, Pensees
Deception/Lying
Engrave this Quote We like to be deceived.
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Desires
Engrave this Quote Desire and force between them are responsible for all our actions; desire causes our voluntary acts, force our involuntary.
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Discovery
Engrave this Quote 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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Effort
Engrave this Quote The struggle alone pleases us, not the victory.
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Enthusiasm
Engrave this Quote Earnestness is enthusiasm tempered by reason.
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Evil
Engrave this Quote Evil is easy, and has infinite forms.
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Engrave this Quote I have discovered that all human evil comes from this, man's being unable to sit still and quiet in a room alone.
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Experience
Engrave this Quote Two things control men's nature, instinct and experience.
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Faith
Engrave this Quote Faith is different from proof; the latter is human, the former is a Gift from God.
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Engrave this Quote Faith embraces many truths which seem to contradict each other.
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Engrave this Quote Faith certainly tells us what the senses do not, but not the contrary of what they see; it is above, not against them.
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Engrave this Quote In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don't.
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Engrave this Quote It is the heart which perceives God and not the reason. That is what faith is: God perceived by the heart, not by the reason.
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Fame
Engrave this Quote The charm of fame is so great that we like every object to which it is attached, even death.
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Engrave this Quote 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.
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Freedom
Engrave this Quote It is not good to be too free. It is not good to have everything one wants.
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God
Engrave this Quote If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager then without hesitation, that He exists.
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-Blaise Pascal, Pensees (418) known as Pascal's Wager
Goodness
Engrave this Quote Ugly deeds are most estimable when hidden.
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Gossip
Engrave this Quote If all men knew what each said of the other, there would not be four friends in the world.
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Engrave this Quote I maintain that, if everyone knew what others said about him, there would not be four friends in the world.
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Habits
Engrave this Quote Habit is the second nature which destroys the first.
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Engrave this Quote Habit is a second nature that destroys the first. But what is nature? Why is habit not natural? I am very much afraid that nature itself is only a first habit, just as habit is a second nature.
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Heart
Engrave this Quote The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing: we know this in countless ways.
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Humility
Engrave this Quote If you would have people speak well of you, then do not speak well of yourself.
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Ideas
Engrave this Quote The whole visible world is only an imperceptible atom in the ample bosom of nature. No idea approaches it.
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Imagination
Engrave this Quote Imagination disposes of everything; it creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which is everything in this world.
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Innovation
Engrave this Quote The more intelligent one is, the more men of originality one finds. Ordinary people find no difference between men.
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Kindness
Engrave this Quote Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.
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Law
Engrave this Quote Law, without force, is impotent.
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Leadership
Engrave this Quote The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble.
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Letters (writing)
Engrave this Quote I have made this letter longer, because I have not had the time to make it shorter.
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-Blaise Pascal, Lettres provinciales, letter 16, 1657
Life
Engrave this Quote We never live, but we hope to live; and as we are always arranging to be happy, it must be that we never are so.
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Engrave this Quote Between us and heaven or hell there is only life, which is the frailest thing in the world.
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Listening
Engrave this Quote We only consult the ear because the heart is wanting.
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Love
Engrave this Quote When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.
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Mankind, Man
Engrave this Quote Anyone who considers himself in this way will be seized with terror and, discovering that the mass nature has given him supports itself between two abysses of infinity and nothingness, he will tremble in the face of these marvels; and I believe that as his curiosity changes to admiration, he will be more disposed to contemplate them in silence then search them out with presumption.
For, finally, what is man in nature? He is nothing in comparison with the infinite, and everything in comparison with nothingness, a middle term between all and nothing. He is infinitely severed from comprehending the extremes; the end of things and their principle are for him invincibly hidden in an impenetrable secret; he is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness from which he arises and the infinity into which he is engulfed.

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-Blaise Pascal, Pens
Engrave this Quote Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature; but he is a thinking reed. The entire universe need not arm itself to crush him. A vapour, a drop of water suffices to kill him. But, if the Universe were to crush him, man would still be more noble than that which killed him, because he knows that he dies and the advantage which the universe has over him; the universe knows nothing of this.
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Engrave this Quote What a chimera then is man. What a novelty! What a monster, what a chaos, what a contradiction, what a prodigy. Judge of all things, imbecile worm of the earth; depositary of truth, a sink of uncertainty and error: the pride and refuse of the universe.
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Mediocrity
Engrave this Quote Nothing is as approved as mediocrity, the majority has established it and it fixes it fangs on whatever gets beyond it either way.
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Moderation
Engrave this Quote To go beyond the bounds of moderation is to outrage humanity.
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Money
Engrave this Quote All man's miseries derive from not being able to sit quietly in a room alone.
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Obedience
Engrave this Quote It is right that what is just should be obeyed. It is necessary that what is strongest should be obeyed.
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Passion
Engrave this Quote However vast a man's spiritual resources, he is capable of but one great passion.
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Engrave this Quote Nothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest, without a passion, without business, without entertainment, without care.
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People
Engrave this Quote There are only three types of people; those who have found God and serve him; those who have not found God and seek him, and those who live not seeking, or finding him. The first are rational and happy; the second unhappy and rational, and the third foolish and unhappy.
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Perfection
Engrave this Quote 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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Persuasion
Engrave this Quote People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found out by others.
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Philosophy
Engrave this Quote To have no time for philosophy is to be a true philosopher.
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Engrave this Quote The origins of disputes between philosophers is, that one class of them have undertaken to raise man by displaying his greatness, and the other to debase him by showing his miseries.
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Pleasure
Engrave this Quote To find recreation in amusement is not happiness.
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Potential
Engrave this Quote We must learn our limits. We are all something but none of us are everything.
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Power
Engrave this Quote The property of power is to protect.
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Reading
Engrave this Quote The last thing one discovers in composing a work is what to put first.
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Religion
Engrave this Quote Men despise religion. They hate it and are afraid it may be true.
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Engrave this Quote Human beings must be known to be loved; but Divine beings must be loved to be known.
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Rest, Leisure
Engrave this Quote Nothing gives rest but the sincere search for truth.
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Engrave this Quote Our nature consist in motion; complete rest is death.
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Ritual, Ceremony
Engrave this Quote It is superstitious to put one's hopes in formalities, but arrogant to refuse to submit to them.
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Rivers
Engrave this Quote He who does not know his way to the sea should take a river for his guide.
Fr., Les rivieres sont des chemins qui marchant et qui portent ou l'on veut aller.
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-Blaise Pascal, Pensees (VII, 38)
Science
Engrave this Quote Vanity of science. Knowledge of physical science will not console me for ignorance of morality in time of affliction, but knowledge of morality will always console me for ignorance of physical science.
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Sin
Engrave this Quote There are only two kinds of men: the righteous who think they are sinners and the sinners who think they are righteous.
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Space
Engrave this Quote The eternal silence of these infinite spaces fills me with dread.
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Speeches (oratory)
Engrave this Quote Do you wish people to think well of you? Don't speak well of yourself.
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Style
Engrave this Quote When we see a natural style, we are astonished and charmed; for we expected to see an author, and we find a person.
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Thought
Engrave this Quote Man's greatness lies in his power of thought.
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Engrave this Quote If we examine our thoughts, we shall find them always occupied with the past and the future.
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Engrave this Quote Man is obviously made for thinking. Therein lies all his dignity and his merit; and his whole duty is to think as he ought.
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Engrave this Quote Man is only a reed, the weakest in nature; but he is a thinking reed. There is no need for the whole universe to take up arms to crush him: a vapor, a drop of water is enough to kill him. But even if the universe were to crush him, man would still be nobler than his slayer, because he knows that he is dying and the advantage the universe has over him. The universe knows nothing of this.
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Time
Engrave this Quote We think very little of time present; we anticipate the future, as being too slow, and with a view to hasten it onward, we recall the past to stay it as too swiftly gone. We are so thoughtless, that we thus wander through the hours which are not here, regardless only of the moment that is actually our own.
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Truth
Engrave this Quote Those are weaklings who know the truth and uphold it as long as it suits their purpose, and then abandon it.
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Unity
Engrave this Quote The multitude which is not brought to act as a unity, is confusion. That unity which has not its origin in the multitude is tyranny.
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Engrave this Quote Any unity which doesn't have its origin in the multitudes is tyranny.
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Vanity
Engrave this Quote Curiosity is only vanity. Most frequently we wish not to know, but to talk. We would not take a sea voyage for the sole pleasure of seeing without hope of ever telling.
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-Blaise Pascal, Penses
Engrave this Quote Vanity is so secure in the heart of man that everyone wants to be admired : even I who write this, and you who read this.
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