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• Eloquence is a painting of the thoughts.

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  Painting, Eloquence

  "Pensées", XXIV. 88 in "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, (pp. 219-220), 1922.

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• The knowledge of God is very far from the love of Him.

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  Valentines Day, God, Knowledge

  Blaise Pascal (2015). “Pensees: Thoughts on Religion”, p.94, Letcetera Publishing

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• The whole title by which you possess your property, is not a title of nature but of a human institution.

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  Titles, Institutions, Humans

  Blaise Pascal, Henry Rogers, Victor Cousin, Charles Louandre (1859). “The Thoughts, Letters and Opuscules of Blaise Pascal”, p.475

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• [On vanity:] The nose of Cleopatra: if it had been shorter, the face of the earth would have changed.

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  Beauty, Vanity, Noses

  Blaise Pascal (1962). “Pensées”

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• Le silence est la plus grande perse cution: jamais les saints ne se sont tus. Silence is the greatest of all persecutions: no saint was ever silent.

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  Silence, Saint, Silent

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• Put the world's greatest philosopher on a plank that is wider than need be; if there is a precipe below, although his reason may convince him that he is safe, his imagination will prevail.

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  Imagination, Needs, World

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

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• Men are so necessarily mad, that not to be mad would amount to another form of madness.

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  Depression, Men, Mad

  Blaise Pascal (2007). “Thoughts”, p.135, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Nature, which alone is good, is wholly familiar and common.

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  Common, Familiar

  Blaise Pascal, Henry Rogers, Victor Cousin, Charles Louandre (1859). “The Thoughts, Letters and Opuscules of Blaise Pascal”, p.513

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• What is it, in your opinion, to be a great nobleman? It is to be master of several objects that men covet, and thus to be able to satisfy the wants and the desires of many. It is these
  wants and these desires that attract them towards you, and that make them submit to you: were it not for these, they would not even look at you; but they hope, by these services... to obtain
  from you some part of the good which they desire, and of which they see that you have the disposal.

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  Men, Desire, Looks

  Blaise Pascal (1961). “Thoughts”

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• Console-toi, tu ne me chercherais pas si tu ne m'avais trouve . Comfort yourself.You would not seek me if you had not found me.

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  Comfort, Found, Console

  'Pensèes' (1670) no. 553

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• L'on a beau se cacher a' soi-me" me, l'on aime toujours. We vainly conceal from ourselves the fact that we are always in love.

  Blaise Pascal

  Facts

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• Our natures lie in motion, without which we die.

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  Change, Lying, Dies

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• Those whom we call ancient were really new in all things, and properly constituted the infancy of mankind.

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  Ancient, Infancy, Mankind

  Blaise Pascal (2007). “Blaise Pascal: Thoughts, Letters, and Minor Works”, p.449, Cosimo, Inc.

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• All men naturally hate each other. We have used concupiscence as best we can to make it serve the common good, but this is mere sham and a false image of charity, for essentially it is just hate.

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  Hate, Men, Charity

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

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• What a chimaera then is man, what a novelty, what a monster, what chaos, what a subject of contradiction, what a prodigy! Judge of all things, yet an imbecile earthworm; depository of truth, yet a sewer of uncertainty and error; pride and refuse of the universe. Who shall resolve this tangle?

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  Truth, Pride, Men

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• Between us, and Hell or Heaven, there is only life between the two, which is the most fragile thing in the world.
  Variant: Between us and heaven or hell there is only life, which is the frailest thing in the world.

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  Life, Two, Heaven

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• We see neither justice nor injustice which does not change its nature with change in climate. Three degrees of latitude reverse all jurisprudence; a meridian decides the truth.

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  Justice, Climate, Degrees

  Blaise Pascal (2007). “Thoughts”, p.105, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Voluptuousness, like justice, is blind, but that is the only resemblance between them.

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  Justice, Blind, Resemblance

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• The last thing that we find in making a book is to know what we must put first.

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  Book, Lasts, Firsts

  Blaise Pascal, Henry Rogers, Victor Cousin, Charles Louandre (1859). “The Thoughts, Letters and Opuscules of Blaise Pascal”, p.240

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• To call a king "Prince" is pleasing, because it diminishes his rank.

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  Kings, Diminish

  Blaise Pascal (2016). “Pensées”, p.30, Open Road Media

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• Since [man] is infinitely removed from comprehending the extremes, the end of things and their beginning are hopelessly hidden from him in an impenetrable secret; he is equally incapable of seeing the nothing from which he was made, and the infinite in which he is swallowed up.

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  Knowledge, Men, Secret

  Blaise Pascal (2013). “Pascal's Pensees”, p.21, Simon and Schuster

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• The weather and my mood have little connection. I have my foggy and my fine days within me; my prosperity or misfortune has little to do with the matter.

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  Fog, Weather, Connections

  Blaise Pascal, W. F. Trotter, T. S. Eliot (2003). “Pensees”, p.34, Courier Corporation

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• Desire and force between them are responsible for all our actions; desire causes our voluntary acts, force our involuntary.

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  Desire, Our Actions, Causes

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• I can approve of those only who seek in tears for happiness.

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  Tears, I Can

  Blaise Pascal (1849). “Thoughts of Blaise Pascal”, p.87

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• Man's greatness is great in that he knows himself wretched. A tree does not know itself wretched. It is then being wretched to know oneself wretched; but it is being great to know that one is wretched.

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  Greatness, Men, Tree

  "Selections from The Thoughts".

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