Nothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest, without a passion, without business, without entertainment, without care.
BLAISE PASCALNothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest, without a passion, without business, without entertainment, without care.
BLAISE PASCALFaith is a sounder guide than reason. Reason can only go so far, but faith has no limits.
BLAISE PASCALSilence. All human unhappiness comes from not knowing how to stay quietly in a room.
BLAISE PASCALSmall minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary.
BLAISE PASCALFear not, provided you fear; but if you fear not, then fear.
BLAISE PASCALIn faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don’t.
BLAISE PASCALIt’s not those who write the laws that have the greatest impact on society. It’s those who write the songs.
BLAISE PASCALMan’s greatness lies in his power of thought.
BLAISE PASCALWisdom leads us back to childhood.
BLAISE PASCALWhen intuition and logic agree, you are always right.
BLAISE PASCALDo you wish people to think well of you? Don’t speak well of yourself.
BLAISE PASCALAll the maxims have been written. It only remains to put them into practice.
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 PASCALFaith is a gift of God.
BLAISE PASCALTruth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it.
BLAISE PASCALThe entire ocean is affected by a single pebble.
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