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There are only two kinds of men: the righteous who think they are sinners and the sinners who think they are righteous. (Blaise Pascal)
Nothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest, without a passion, without business, without entertainment, without care. View quote
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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? View quote
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You always admire what you really don't understand. View quote
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Few men speak humbly of humility, chastely of chastity, skeptically of skepticism. View quote
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Imagination disposes of everything; it creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which are everything in this world. View quote
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Men are so necessarily mad, that not to be mad would amount to another form of madness. View quote
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The weather and my mood have little connection. I have my foggy and my fine days within me; my prosperity or misfortune has little to do with the matter. View quote
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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. View quote
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Few friendships would survive if each one knew what his friend says of him behind his back. View quote
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A trifle consoles us, for a trifle distresses us. (Blaise Pascal)
Mahomet established a religion by putting his enemies to death Jesus Christ by commanding his followers to lay down their lives. View quote
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Through space the universe grasps me and swallows me up like a speck through thought I grasp it. View quote
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For as old age is that period of life most remote from infancy, who does not see that old age in this universal man ought not to be sought in the times nearest his birth, but in those most remote from it. View quote
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Nature has perfections, in order to show that she is the image of God and defects, to show that she is only his image. View quote
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Do you wish people to think well of you? Don't speak well of yourself. View quote
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Little things console us because little things afflict us. View quote
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Cleopatra's nose, had it been shorter, the whole face of the world would have been changed. View quote
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The principles of pleasure are not firm and stable. They are different in all mankind, and variable in every particular with such a diversity that there is no man more different from another than from himself at different times. View quote
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In order to enter into a real knowledge of your condition, consider it in this image: A man was cast by a tempest upon an unknown island, the inhabitants of which were in trouble to find their king, who was lost; and having a strong resemblance both in form and face to this king, he was taken for him, and acknowledged in this capacity by all the people. View quote
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All men's miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone. (Blaise Pascal)
People almost invariably arrive at their beliefs not on the basis of proof but on the basis of what they find attractive. View quote
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We must learn our limits. We are all something but none of us are everything. View quote
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The last function of reason is to recognize that there are an infinity of things which surpass it. View quote
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It is not certain that everything is uncertain. View quote
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