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Quotes By — Blaise Pascal

Don't try to add more years to your life. Better add more life to your years.
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There is a God-shaped vacuum in every heart.
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Most of man's trouble comes from his inability to be still.
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We must learn our limits. We are all something, but none of us are everything.
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In difficult times carry something beautiful in your heart.
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Once your soul has been enlarged by a truth, it can never return to its original size.
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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.
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Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.
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I rather live as if God exists to find out that He doesn't than live as if he doesn't exist to find out He does.
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Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.
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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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Distraction is the only thing that consoles us for our miseries. Yet it is itself the greatest of our miseries.
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The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
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Man is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness from which he emerges and the infinity in which he is engulfed.
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Love has reasons which reason cannot understand.
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It is the heart which perceives God and not the reason.
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All human evil comes from a single cause, man's inability to sit still in a room.
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We view things not only from different sides, but with different eyes; we have no wish to find them alike.
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All the troubles of life come upon us because we refuse to sit quietly for a while each day in our rooms.
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Since we cannot know all that there is to be known about anything, we ought to know a little about everything.
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Wisdom leads us back to childhood.
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Those we call the ancients were really new in everything.
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Justice and power must be brought together, so that whatever is just may be powerful, and whatever is powerful may be just.
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Now, if the passions had no hold on us, a week and a hundred years would amount to the same.
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they do not know that they seek only the chase and not the quarry.
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The state of man is inconstancy, ennui, anxiety.
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Fire. God of Abraham, God of Isaac, God of Jacob, not of the philosophers and the scholars. I will not forget thy word. Amen.
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It is not permitted to the most equitable of men to be a judge in his own cause.
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What part of us feels pleasure? Is it our hand, our arm, our flesh, or our blood? It must obviously be something immaterial.
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Must we kill to prevent there being any wicked? This is to make both parties wicked instead of one.
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Nothing fortifies scepticism more than that there are some who are not sceptics; if all were so, they would be wrong.
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Tout notre raisonnement se re duit a' ce der au sentiment. All our reasoning comes down to surrendering to feeling.
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We have an idea of truth, invincible to all scepticism.
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If there were only one religion, God would indeed be manifest.
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Mediocrity makes the most of its native possessions.
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Custom determines what is agreeable.
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Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too.
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Good deeds, when concealed, are the most admirable.
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The whole title by which you possess your property, is not a title of nature but of a human institution.
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Le silence est la plus grande perse cution: jamais les saints ne se sont tus. Silence is the greatest of all persecutions: no saint was ever silent.
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Those whom we call ancient were really new in all things, and properly constituted the infancy of mankind.
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Losses are comparative; imagination only makes them of any moment.
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The married should not forget that to speak of love begets love.
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Is it courage in a dying man to go, in weakness and in agony, to affront an almighty and eternal God?
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Look for the truth, it wants to be found.
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The great mass of people judge well of things, for they are in natural ignorance, which is man's true state.
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By thought I embrace the universe.
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Vanity is illustrated in the cause and effect of love, as in the case of Cleopatra.
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All this visible world is but an imperceptible point in the ample bosom of nature.
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Most of the evils of life arise from man's being unable to sit still in a room.
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Quotes By — Blaise Pascal

Don't try to add more years to your life. Better add more life to your years.

There is a God-shaped vacuum in every heart.

Most of man's trouble comes from his inability to be still.

We must learn our limits. We are all something, but none of us are everything.

In difficult times carry something beautiful in your heart.

Once your soul has been enlarged by a truth, it can never return to its original size.

There are only two kinds of men: the righteous who think they are sinners and the sinners who think they are righteous.

Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.

I rather live as if God exists to find out that He doesn't than live as if he doesn't exist to find out He does.

Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.

Man is obviously made for thinking. Therein lies all his dignity and his merit; and his whole duty is to think as he ought.

Distraction is the only thing that consoles us for our miseries. Yet it is itself the greatest of our miseries.

The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.

Man is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness from which he emerges and the infinity in which he is engulfed.

Love has reasons which reason cannot understand.

It is the heart which perceives God and not the reason.

All human evil comes from a single cause, man's inability to sit still in a room.

We view things not only from different sides, but with different eyes; we have no wish to find them alike.

All the troubles of life come upon us because we refuse to sit quietly for a while each day in our rooms.

Since we cannot know all that there is to be known about anything, we ought to know a little about everything.

Wisdom leads us back to childhood.

Those we call the ancients were really new in everything.

Justice and power must be brought together, so that whatever is just may be powerful, and whatever is powerful may be just.

Now, if the passions had no hold on us, a week and a hundred years would amount to the same.

they do not know that they seek only the chase and not the quarry.

The state of man is inconstancy, ennui, anxiety.

Fire. God of Abraham, God of Isaac, God of Jacob, not of the philosophers and the scholars. I will not forget thy word. Amen.

It is not permitted to the most equitable of men to be a judge in his own cause.

What part of us feels pleasure? Is it our hand, our arm, our flesh, or our blood? It must obviously be something immaterial.

Must we kill to prevent there being any wicked? This is to make both parties wicked instead of one.

Nothing fortifies scepticism more than that there are some who are not sceptics; if all were so, they would be wrong.

Tout notre raisonnement se re duit a' ce der au sentiment. All our reasoning comes down to surrendering to feeling.

We have an idea of truth, invincible to all scepticism.

If there were only one religion, God would indeed be manifest.

Mediocrity makes the most of its native possessions.

Custom determines what is agreeable.

Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too.

Good deeds, when concealed, are the most admirable.

The whole title by which you possess your property, is not a title of nature but of a human institution.

Le silence est la plus grande perse cution: jamais les saints ne se sont tus. Silence is the greatest of all persecutions: no saint was ever silent.

Those whom we call ancient were really new in all things, and properly constituted the infancy of mankind.

Losses are comparative; imagination only makes them of any moment.

The married should not forget that to speak of love begets love.

Is it courage in a dying man to go, in weakness and in agony, to affront an almighty and eternal God?

Look for the truth, it wants to be found.

The great mass of people judge well of things, for they are in natural ignorance, which is man's true state.

By thought I embrace the universe.

Vanity is illustrated in the cause and effect of love, as in the case of Cleopatra.

All this visible world is but an imperceptible point in the ample bosom of nature.

Most of the evils of life arise from man's being unable to sit still in a room.

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