All our dignity lies in our thoughts.
BLAISE PASCALAll our dignity lies in our thoughts.
BLAISE PASCALI bring you the gift of these four words: I believe in you.
BLAISE PASCALMost of man’s trouble comes from his inability to be still.
BLAISE PASCALAll the maxims have been written. It only remains to put them into practice.
BLAISE PASCALFaith is a sounder guide than reason. Reason can only go so far, but faith has no limits.
BLAISE PASCALMan is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness from which he emerges and the infinity in which he is engulfed.
BLAISE PASCALPlurality which is not reduced to unity is confusion; unity which does not depend on plurality is tyranny.
BLAISE PASCALEveryone, without exception, is searching for happiness.
BLAISE PASCALI 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.
BLAISE PASCALAnd is it not obvious that, just as it is a crime to disturb the peace when truth reigns, it is also a crime to remain at peace when the truth is being destroyed?
BLAISE PASCALIf you want others to have a good opinion of you, say nothing.
BLAISE PASCALKind words do not cost much. They never blister the tongue or lips. They make other people good-natured. They also produce their own image on men’s souls, and a beautiful image it is.
BLAISE PASCALWe are not satisfied with real life; we want to live some imaginary life in the eyes of other people and to seem different from what we actually are.
BLAISE PASCALIf you want to be a real seeker of truth, you need to, at least once in your lifetime, doubt in, as much as it’s possible, in everything.
BLAISE PASCALOne-half of the ills of life come because men are unwilling to sit down quietly for thirty minutes to think through all the possible consequences of their acts.
BLAISE PASCALHappiness can be found neither in ourselves nor in external things, but in God and in ourselves as united to him.
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