Justice without force is powerless; force without justice is tyrannical.
BLAISE PASCALJustice without force is powerless; force without justice is tyrannical.
BLAISE PASCALPlurality which is not reduced to unity is confusion; unity which does not depend on plurality is tyranny.
BLAISE PASCALMan’s greatness lies in his power of thought.
BLAISE PASCALWe never love a person, but only qualities.
BLAISE PASCALIf you want others to have a good opinion of you, say nothing.
BLAISE PASCALThere are only two kinds of men: the righteous who think they are sinners and the sinners who think they are righteous.
BLAISE PASCALTruth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it.
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 PASCALLove has reasons which reason cannot understand.
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 PASCALSmall minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary.
BLAISE PASCALHappiness is neither within us, nor without us. It is in the union of ourselves with God.
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.
BLAISE PASCALIf a man is not made for God, why is he happy only in God?
BLAISE PASCALFaith is a gift of God.
BLAISE PASCALAll our dignity lies in our thoughts.
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