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If it is pleasing to observe in nature her desire to paint God in all his works. (Blaise Pascal)
Nothing is more common than good things: the point in question is only to discriminate them. View quote
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Do not imagine that it is less an accident by which you find yourself master of the wealth which you possess. View quote
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This art, which I call the art of persuading, and which, properly speaking, is simply the process of perfect methodical proofs, consists of three essential parts. View quote
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One, knowing the duties of man and being ignorant of his impotence, is lost in presumption. View quote
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God alone can place them in the soul. View quote
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It is these wants and these desires that attract them towards you, and that make them submit to you: were it not for these, they would not even look at you. View quote
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It is necessary to have regard to the person whom we wish to persuade, of whom we must know the mind and the heart. View quote
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Logic has borrowed, perhaps, the rules of geometry, without comprehending their force. View quote
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It is not among extraordinary and fantastic things that excellence is to be found. View quote
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A few rules include all that is necessary for the perfection of. (Blaise Pascal)
It is better to know something about everything then everything about something. View quote
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Your soul and your body are, of themselves, indifferent to the state of boatman or that of duke; and there is no natural bond that attaches them to one condition rather than to another. View quote
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All who say the same things do not possess them in the same manner. View quote
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If you act externally with men in conformity with your rank, you should recognize. View quote
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These two states which it is necessary to know together in order to see the whole truth, being known separately, lead necessarily to one of these two vices, pride or indolence. View quote
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One of the principal reasons that diverts those who are entering upon this knowledge so much from the true path which they should follow, is the fancy that they take at the outset that good things are inaccessible, giving them the name great, lofty, elevated, sublime. This destroys everything. I would call them low, common, familiar. View quote
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We rise to attain it and become removed from it: it is oftenest necessary to stoop for it. View quote
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All men are almost led to believe not of proof, but by attraction. View quote
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I would prefer an intelligent hell to a stupid paradise. View quote
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Nature has made all her truths independent of one another. Our art makes one dependent on the other. (Blaise Pascal)
There is a certain standard of grace and beauty which consists in a certain relation between our nature... and the thing which pleases us. View quote
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The last act is bloody, however fine the rest of the play. View quote
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Miracle does not always signify miracle. View quote
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Rules necessary for axioms. Not to demand in axioms any but things perfectly evident. View quote
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