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• It is not only old and early impressions that deceive us; the charms of novelty have the same power.

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  Deception, Novelty, Deceiving

  Blaise Pascal (1829). “Thoughts on Religion and Other Subjects”, p.80

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• 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.

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  Love, Math, Men

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• According to the doctrine of chance, you ought to put yourself to the trouble of searching for the truth; for if you die without worshiping the True Cause, you are lost. "But," say you, "if He had wished me to worship Him, He would have left me signs of His will." He has done so; but you neglect them. Seek them, therefore; it is well worth it.

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  Doctrine, Done, Causes

  Blaise Pascal (2013). “Pascal's Pensees”, p.72, Simon and Schuster

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• For as old age is that period of life most remote from infancy, who does not see that old age in this universal man ought not to be sought in the times nearest his birth, but in those most
  remote from it?

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  Men, Age, Doe

  Blaise Pascal (2010). “Thoughts, Letters and Minor Works”, p.449, Cosimo, Inc.

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• All the dignity of man consists in thought. Thought is therefore by its nature a wonderful and incomparable thing. It must have strange defects to be contemptible. But it has such, so that nothing is more ridiculous. How great it is in its nature! How vile it is in its defects! But what is this thought? How foolish it is!

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  Men, Ridiculous, Strange

  Blaise Pascal (2010). “Thoughts, Letters and Minor Works”, p.124, Cosimo, Inc.

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• How vain painting is-we admire the realistic depiction of objects which in their original state we don't admire at all.

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  Painting, Realistic, Vain

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• Evil is easily discovered; there is an infinite variety; good is almost unique. But some kinds of evil are almost as difficult to discover as that which we call good; and often particular evil of this class passes for good. It needs even a certain greatness of soul to attain to this, as to that which is good.

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  Unique, Greatness, Class

  Blaise Pascal (1849). “Thoughts of Blaise Pascal”, p.147

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• All men have happiness as their object: there is no exception. However different the means they employ, they all aim at the same end.

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  Happiness, Mean, Men

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• Vanity is illustrated in the cause and effect of love, as in the case of Cleopatra.

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  Vanity, Causes, Cases

  Blaise Pascal, James M. Houston (2006). “The Mind on Fire: Faith for the Skeptical and Indifferent”, p.54, David C Cook

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• What use is it to us to hear it said of a man that he has thrown off the yoke that he does not believe there is a God to watch over his actions, that he reckons himself the sole master of his behavior, and that he does not intend to give an account of it to anyone but himself?

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  Christian, Believe, Men

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• Reason commands us far more imperiously than a master; for in disobeying the one we are unfortunate, and in disobeying the other we are fools.

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  Wisdom, Intelligence, Fool

  Blaise Pascal (2016). “Pensées”, p.135, Open Road Media

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• The present is never the mark of our designs. We use both past and present as our means and instruments, but the future only as our object and aim.

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  Future, Mean, Past

  Blaise Pascal (1727). “Thoughts on Religion and Other Curious Subjects”, p.178

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• The more intelligence one has, the more people one finds original. Commonplace people see no difference between men.

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  Men, Differences, People

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• Discourses on humility are a source of pride in the vain and of humility in the humble. So those on scepticism cause believers to affirm. Few men speak humbly of humility, chastely of chastity, few doubtingly of scepticism.

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  Humble, Humility, Pride

  Blaise Pascal (2016). “Pensées”, p.142, Open Road Media

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• Rivers are highways that move on and bear us whither we wish to go.

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  Moving, Rivers, Wish

  Blaise Pascal, Henry Rogers, Victor Cousin, Charles Louandre (1859). “The Thoughts, Letters and Opuscules of Blaise Pascal”, p.241

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• Death is easier to bear without thinking of it, than the thought of death without peril.

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  Death, Thinking, Bears

  Blaise Pascal (2007). “Thoughts”, p.63, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Everything that is incomprehensible does not, however, cease to exist.

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  Doe, Existence, Cease

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

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• I take it as a matter not to be disputed, that if all knew what each said of the other, there would not be four friends in the world. This seems proved by the quarrels and disputes caused by the disclosures which are occasionally made.

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  Gossip, World, Four

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• Therefore, those to whom God has imparted religion by intuition are very fortunate and justly convinced. But to those who do not have it, we can give it only by reasoning, waiting for God to give them spiritual insight, without which faith is only human and useless for salvation.

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  Spiritual, Giving, Waiting

  Blaise Pascal (2013). “Pensées”, p.80, Courier Corporation

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• The Stoics say, "Retire within yourselves; it is there you will find your rest." And that is not true. Others say, "Go out of yourselves; seek happiness in amusement." And this is not true. Illness comes. Happiness is neither without us nor within us. It is in God, both without us and within us.

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  Amusement, Illness, Retiring

  Blaise Pascal (2013). “Pensées”, p.130, Courier Corporation

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• Those who profess contempt for men, and put them on a level with beasts, yet wish to be admired and believed by men, and contradict themselves by their own feelings--their nature, which is stronger than all, convincing them of the greatness of man more forcibly than reason convinces them of his baseness.

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  Greatness, Men, Feelings

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• Force and not opinion is the queen of the world; but it is opinion that uses the force.
  [Fr., La force est la reine du monde, et non pas l'opinion; mais l'opinion est celle qui use de la force.]

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  Queens, Use, World

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• A few rules include all that is necessary for the perfection of the definitions, the axioms, and the demonstrations, and consequently of the entire method of the geometrical proofs of the
  art of persuading.

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  Art, Perfection, Definitions

  Blaise Pascal, Henry Rogers, Victor Cousin, Charles Louandre (1859). “The Thoughts, Letters and Opuscules of Blaise Pascal”, p.506

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• When malice has reason on its side, it looks forth bravely, and displays that reason in all its luster. When austerity and self-denial have not realized true happiness, and the soul returns to the dictates of nature, the reaction is fearfully extravagant.

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  Self, Soul, Austerity

  Blaise Pascal (1849). “Thoughts of Blaise Pascal”, p.133

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• Eloquence; it requires the pleasant and the real; but the pleasant must itself be drawn from the true.

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  Real, Eloquence, Pleasant

  Blaise Pascal (2013). “Pascal's Pensees”, p.11, Simon and Schuster

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