Blaise Pascal Quotes About Soldiers

Quotes about: Soldiers

• Man is full of desires: he loves only those who can satisfy them all. "This man is a good mathematician," someone will say. But I have no concern for mathematics; he would take me for a proposition. "That one is a good soldier." He would take me for a besieged town. I need, that is to say, a decent man who can accommodate himself to all my desires in a general sort of way.

  Blaise Pascal

  Love, Math, Men

• When a soldier complains of his hard life (or a labourer, etc.) try giving him nothing to do.

  Blaise Pascal

  Giving, Soldier, Hard Life

  Blaise Pascal (1966). “Pascal Pensées”, Penguin Classics

• If a soldier or labourer complain of the hardship of his lot, set him to do nothing.

  Blaise Pascal

  Soldier, Complaining, Hardship

  Blaise Pascal (2016). “Pensées”, p.62, Open Road Media

• Vanity is so anchored in the heart of man that a soldier, a soldier's servant, a cook, a porter brags and wishes to have his admirers. Even philosophers wish for them. Those who write against vanity want to have the glory of having written well; and those who read it desire the glory of having read it. I who write this have perhaps this desire, and perhaps those who will read it.

  Blaise Pascal

  Philosophical, Writing, Heart

  Blaise Pascal (2013). “Pensées”, p.46, Courier Corporation

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