We never love a person, but only qualities.
BLAISE PASCALWe never love a person, but only qualities.
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 I had more time I would write a shorter letter.
BLAISE PASCALLove has reasons which reason cannot understand.
BLAISE PASCALThe more I see of Mankind, the more I prefer my dog.
BLAISE PASCALIt’s not those who write the laws that have the greatest impact on society. It’s those who write the songs.
BLAISE PASCALThe entire ocean is affected by a single pebble.
BLAISE PASCALFaith is a gift of God.
BLAISE PASCALMan is obviously made for thinking. Therein lies all his dignity and his merit; and his whole duty is to think as he ought.
BLAISE PASCALDo you wish people to think well of you? Don’t speak well of yourself.
BLAISE PASCALEvil is easy, and has infinite forms.
BLAISE PASCALWe must learn our limits. We are all something, but none of us are everything.
BLAISE PASCALIf you do not love too much, you do not love enough.
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 PASCALNothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest, without a passion, without business, without entertainment, without care.
BLAISE PASCALIt is the heart which perceives God and not the reason. That is what faith is: God perceived by the heart, not by the reason.
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