There are some who speak well and write badly. For the place and the audience warm them, and draw from their minds more than they think of without that warmth.


Blaise Pascal

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The only shame is to have none
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You always admire what you really don't understand.
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Eloquence is a painting of the thoughts.
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The eternal silence of these infinite spaces fills me with dread.
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Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.
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Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from a religious conviction.
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I have discovered that all human evil comes from this, man's being unable to sit still in a room.
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Curiosity is only vanity. We usually only want to know something so that we can talk about it.
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Little things console us because little things afflict us.
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The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble.
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You always admire what you really don't understand.
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Justice and truth are too such subtle points that our tools are too blunt to touch them accurately.
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Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary.
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A jester, a bad character. [Fr., Diseur de bon mots, mauvais caractere.]
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We think very little of time present; we anticipate the future, as being too slow, and with a view t...
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By a peculiar prerogative, not only each individual is making daily advances in the sciences, and ma...
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For after all what is man in nature? A nothing in relation to infinity, all in relation to nothing, ...
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Man is to himself the most wonderful object in nature; for he cannot conceive what the body is, stil...
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We know truth, not only by reason, but also by the heart.
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We are generally the better persuaded by the reasons we discover ourselves than by those given to us...
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The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of.
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Since we cannot know all that there is to be known about anything, we ought to know a little about e...
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People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found by other...
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One must know oneself, if this does not serve to discover truth, it at least serves as a rule of lif...
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Man is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness from which he emerges and the infinity in which h...
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Few men speak humbly of humility, chastely of chastity, skeptically of skepticism.
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Force rules the world, and not opinion; but opinion is that which makes use of force.
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Curiosity is only vanity. Most frequently we wish not to know, but to talk. We would not take a sea ...
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Vanity is so secure in the heart of man that everyone wants to be admired : even I who write this, a...
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The multitude which is not brought to act as a unity, is confusion. That unity which has not its ori...
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Any unity which doesn't have its origin in the multitudes is tyranny.
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Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too; this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and...
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What a strange vanity painting is; it attracts admiration by resembling the original, we do not admi...
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Thus so wretched is man that he would weary even without any cause for weariness... and so frivolous...
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The present is never our goal: the past and present are our means: the future alone is our goal. Thu...
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A mere trifle consoles us for a mere trifle distresses us.
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Noble deeds that are concealed are most esteemed
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Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from a religious conviction
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The consciousness of the falsity of present pleasures, and the ignorance of the vanity of absent ple...
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The weather and my mood have little connection. I have my foggy and my fine days within me; my prosp...
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Therefore, those to whom God has imparted religion by intuition are very fortunate and justly convin...
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It is good to be tired and wearied by the futile search after the true good, that we may stretch out...
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The eternal silence of these infinite spaces frightens me.
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We are usually convinced more easily by reasons we have found ourselves than by reasons which have o...
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Not only do we not know God except through Jesus Christ; We do not even know ourselves except throug...
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