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• There are some who speak well and write badly. For the place and the audience warm them, and draw from their minds more than they think of without that warmth.

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  Writing, Thinking, Mind

  Blaise Pascal, W. F. Trotter, T. S. Eliot (2003). “Pensees”, p.12, Courier Corporation

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• It is not shameful for a man to succumb to pain and it is shameful to succumb to pleasure.

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  Pain, Men, Pleasure

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• Fire. God of Abraham, God of Isaac, God of Jacob, not of the philosophers and the scholars. I will not forget thy word. Amen.

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  Fire, Philosopher, Forget

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• Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too.

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  Passion, Mean, Mind

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• Ugly deeds are most estimable when hidden.

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  Deeds, Ugly, Goodness

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• That dog is mine said those poor children; that place in the sun is mine; such is the beginning and type of usurpation throughout the earth.
  [Fr., Ce chien est a moi, disaient ces pauvres enfants; c'est la ma place au soleil. Voila le commencement et l'image de l'usurpation de toute la terre.]

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  Dog, Children, Earth

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• Without [diversion] we would be in a state of weariness, and this weariness would spur us on to seek a more solid means of escaping from it. But diversion amuses us, and leads us unconsciously to death.

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  Death, Sadness, Mean

  Blaise Pascal (2012). “Pascal's Pensées”, p.105, tredition

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• The Christian's God does not merely consist of a God who is the Author of mathematical truths and the order of the elements. The God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, the God of Jacob, the God of the Christians, is a God of love and consolation.

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  Christian, Order, Doe

  "The Mind on Fire: Faith for the Skeptical and Indifferent".

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• We feel neither extreme heat nor extreme cold; qualities that are in excess are so much at variance with our feelings that they are impalpable: we do not feel them, though we suffer from their effects.

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  Feelings, Suffering, Quality

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• The world is ruled by force, not by opinion; but opinion uses force.

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  Use, World, Opinion

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• Extremes are for us as if they were not, and as if we were not in regard to them; they escape from us, or we from them.

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  Extremes, Regard, Ifs

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• Quand on voit le style naturel, on est tout e tonne et ravi, car on s'attendait de voir un auteur, et on trouve un homme. When we see a natural style we are quite amazed and delighted, because we expected to see an author and find a man.

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  Men, Car, Style

  'Pensèes' (1670) no. 29

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• Eloquence is the painting of thought.

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  Painting, Eloquence

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• We have an idea of truth, invincible to all scepticism.

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  Truth, Ideas, Invincible

  Blaise Pascal (2015). “Pensees: Thoughts on Religion”, p.120, Letcetera Publishing

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• Each one is all in all to himself; for being dead, all is dead to him.

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  Self

  Blaise Pascal (2013). “Pensées”, p.128, Courier Corporation

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• Must we kill to prevent there being any wicked? This is to make both parties wicked instead of one.

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  Party, Wicked, Killing

  Blaise Pascal (2013). “Pascal's Pensees”, p.274, Simon and Schuster

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• All mankind's troubles are caused by one single thing, which is their inability to sit quietly.

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  Life, Inability, Trouble

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• Continuous eloquence wearies. Grandeur must be abandoned to be appreciated. Continuity in everything is unpleasant. Cold is agreeable, that we may get warm.

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  May, Cold, Appreciated

  Blaise Pascal, W. F. Trotter, T. S. Eliot (2003). “Pensees”, p.98, Courier Corporation

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• Symmetry is what we see at a glance; based on the fact that there is no reason for any difference.

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  Differences, Facts, Reason

  Blaise Pascal (2007). “Thoughts”, p.15, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Law, without force, is impotent.

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  Law, Lawyer, Force

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• May God never abandon me.

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  May, Last Words, Abandon

  Blaise Pascal (1962). “Pensées”

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• Nothing is so conformable to reason as to disavow reason.

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  Reason

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• Nobody is publicly accepted as an expert on poetry unless he displays the sign of poet, mathematician, etc., but universal men want no sign and make hardly any distinction between the crafts of poet and embroiderer. Universal men are not called poets or mathematicians, etc. But they are all these things and judges of them too. No one could guess what they are, and they will talk about whatever was being talked about when they came in. One quality is not more noticeable in them than another, unless it becomes necessary to put it into practice, and then we remember it.

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  Men, Practice, Judging

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• We must know where to doubt, where to feel certain, where to submit. He who does not do so, understands not the force of reason.

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  Doubt, Doe, Reason

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

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• I would inquire of reasonable persons whether this principle: Matter is naturally wholly incapable of thought, and this other: I think, therefore I am, are in fact the same in the mind of
  Descartes, and in that of St. Augustine, who said the same thing twelve hundred years before.

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  Thinking, Years, Mind

  Blaise Pascal, Henry Rogers, Victor Cousin, Charles Louandre (1859). “The Thoughts, Letters and Opuscules of Blaise Pascal”, p.510

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