All the maxims have been written. It only remains to put them into practice.
BLAISE PASCALAll the maxims have been written. It only remains to put them into practice.
BLAISE PASCALIf I believe in God and life after death and you do not, and if there is no God, we both lose when we die. However, if there is a God, you still lose and I gain everything.
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 PASCALLord, help me to do great things as though they were little, since I do them with your power; And little things as though they were great, since I do them in your name!
BLAISE PASCALMost of man’s trouble comes from his inability to be still.
BLAISE PASCALHuman beings must be known to be loved; but Divine beings must be loved to be known.
BLAISE PASCALSmall minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary.
BLAISE PASCALGood deeds, when concealed, are the most admirable.
BLAISE PASCALAll of our reasoning ends in surrender to feeling.
BLAISE PASCALHow hollow is the heart of man, and how full of excrement!
BLAISE PASCALDo you wish people to think well of you? Don’t speak well of yourself.
BLAISE PASCALImagination decides everything.
BLAISE PASCALLove has reasons which reason cannot understand.
BLAISE PASCALWe never love a person, but only qualities.
BLAISE PASCALNothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest, without a passion, without business, without entertainment, without care.
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.
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