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• I do not admire a virtue like valour when it is pushed to excess, if I do not see at the same time the excess of the opposite virtue, as one does in Epaminondas, who displayed extreme valour and extreme benevolence. For otherwise it is not an ascent, but a fall. We do not display our greatness by placing ourselves at one extremity, but rather by being at both at the same time, and filling up the whole of the space between them.

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  Fall, Greatness, Space

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• Our imagination so magnifies this present existence, by the power of continual reflection on it, and so attenuates eternity, by not thinking of it at all, that we reduce an eternity to nothingness, and expand a mere nothing to an eternity; and this habit is so inveterately rooted in us that all the force of reason cannot induce us to lay it aside.

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  Thinking, Reflection, Imagination

  Blaise Pascal (1829). “Thoughts on Religion and Other Subjects”, p.76

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• There was once in man a true happiness of which there now remain to him only the mark and empty trace, which he in vain tries to fill from all his surroundings, seeking from things absent the help he does not obtain in things present.

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  Happiness, Men, Trying

  Pensees no. 181 (1658). Popularly paraphrased as "There is a God-shaped vacuum in every heart."

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• Custom creates the whole of equity, for the simple reason that it is accepted.

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  Simple, Reason, Accepted

  Blaise Pascal (2013). “Pascal's Pensees”, p.87, Simon and Schuster

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• All the unhappiness of men arises from one single fact, that they cannot stay quietly in their own chamber.

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  Men, Solitude, Facts

  Blaise Pascal, W. F. Trotter, T. S. Eliot (2003). “Pensees”, p.39, Courier Corporation

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• To be mistaken in believing that the Christian religion is true is no great loss to anyone; but how dreadful to be mistaken in believing it to be false!

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  Christian, Believe, Loss

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• The law required what it could not give. Grace gives that which it requires.

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  Law, Giving, Grace

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• That queen, of error, whom we call fancy and opinion, is the more deceitful because she does not always deceive. She would be the infallible rule of truth if she were the infallible rule of falsehood; but being only most frequently in error, she gives no evidence of her real quality, for she marks with the same character both that which is true and that which is false.

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  Queens, Real, Character

  Blaise Pascal (1849). “Thoughts of Blaise Pascal”, p.95

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• Do they think that they have given us great pleasure by telling us that they hold our soul to be no more than wind or smoke, and saying it moreover in tones of pride and satisfaction? Is this then something to be said gaily? Is it not on the contrary something to be said sadly, as being the saddest thing in the world?

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  Pride, Thinking, Wind

  Blaise Pascal (2008). “Human Happiness”, Penguin Group USA

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• We never do evil so effectually as when we are led to do it by a false principle of conscience.

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  Evil, Principles, Conscience

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 157, 1895.

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• The mind has its arrangement; it proceeds from principles to demonstrations. The heart has a different mode of proceeding.

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  Heart, Mind, Principles

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• The past and present are only our means; the future is always our end. Thus we never really live, but only hope to live.

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  Mean, Past, Ends

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• Men blaspheme what they do not know.

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  Men, Knows

  Blaise Pascal (2015). “Pensees: Thoughts on Religion”, p.166, Letcetera Publishing

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• Let us, then, take our compass; we are something, and we are not everything. The nature of our existence hides from us the knowledge of first beginnings which are born of the nothing; and the littleness of our being conceals from us the sight of the infinite. Our intellect holds the same position in the world of thought as our body occupies in the expanse of nature.

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  Knowledge, Sight, World

  Blaise Pascal (2009). “Thoughts”, p.31, Lulu.com

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• Man finds nothing so intolerable as to be in a state of complete rest, without passions, without occupation, without diversion, without effort. Then he feels his nullity, loneliness, inadequacy, dependence, helplessness, emptiness.

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  Loneliness, Passion, Men

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• We are usually convinced more easily by reasons we have found ourselves than by those which have occurred to others.

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  Freedom, Democracy, Reason

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• There is nothing so insupportable to man as to be in entire repose, without passion, occupation, amusement, or application. Then it is that he feels his own nothingness, isolation, insignificance, dependent nature, powerless, emptiness. Immediately there issue from his soul ennui, sadness, chagrin, vexation, despair.

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  Sadness, Passion, Men

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• Il y a deux sortes d'esprits, l'un ge ome trique, et l'autre que l'on peut appeler de finesse. Le premier a des vues lentes, dures et inflexibles; mais le dernier a une souplesse de pense e. There are two kinds of mind, one mathematical, the other what one might call the intuitive. The first takes a slow, firm, inflexible view, but the latter has flexibility of thought.

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  Views, Two, Mind

  c.1653 Discours sur les passions de l'amour (Discourse on the Passions of Love).This is usually attributed to Pascal.

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• At the centre of every human being is a God-shaped vacuum which can only be filled by Jesus Christ.

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  Jesus, Vacuums, Christ

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• To deny, to believe, and to doubt well, are to a man what the race is to a horse.

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  Horse, Believe, Math

  "Pensees".

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• The world is satisfied with words. Few appreciate the things beneath.
  [Fr., Le monde se paye de paroles; peu approfondissement les choses.]

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  Appreciate, World, Parole

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• In proportion as our own mind is enlarged we discover a greater number of men of originality. Commonplace people see no difference between one man and another.

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  Appreciation, Men, Differences

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• The last proceeding of reason is to recognize that there is an infinity of things which are beyond it. There is nothing so conformable to reason as this disavowal of reason.

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  Lasts, Infinity, Reason

  Blaise Pascal (2013). “Pascal's Pensees”, p.80, Simon and Schuster

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• It is not from space that I must seek my dignity, but from the government of my thought. I shall have no more if I possess worlds. By space the universe encompasses and swallows me up like an atom; by thought I comprehend the world.

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  Government, Space, Atoms

  Blaise Pascal (2009). “Thoughts”, p.104, Lulu.com

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• The manner in which Epictetus, Montaigne, and Salomon de Tultie wrote, is the most usual, the most suggestive, the most remembered, and the oftener quoted; because it is entirely composed of thoughts born from the common talk of life.

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  Usual, Common, Born

  Blaise Pascal (1961). “Thoughts”

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