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Blaise Pascal Quotes

«Great and small suffer the same mishaps»
«Despite the sight of all the miseries which affect us and hold us by the throat we have an irrepressible instinct which bears us up»
«However vast a man's spiritual resources, he is capable of but one great passion»
«True nature being lost, everything becomes its own nature; as the true good being lost, everything becomes its own true good.»
«I have discovered that all human evil comes from this, man's being unable to sit still in a room.»
«Venerable, because it has perfect knowledge of man; lovable because it promises the true good.»
«It is right that what is just should be obeyed. It is necessary that what is strongest should be obeyed.»
«It is superstitious to put one's hopes in formalities, but arrogant to refuse to submit to them.»
«Man is obviously made for thinking. Therein lies all his dignity and his merit; and his whole duty is to think as he ought.»
«Desire and force between them are responsible for all our actions; desire causes our voluntary acts, force our involuntary.»