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• Jesus was in a garden, not of delight as the first Adam, in which he destroyed himself and the whole human race, but in one of agony, in which he saved himself and the whole human race.

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  Jesus, Garden, Race

  Blaise Pascal, Auguste Molinier (1905). “The Thoughts of Blaise Pascal”

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• Those are weaklings who know the truth and uphold it as long as it suits their purpose, and then abandon it.

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  Truth, Long, Purpose

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• Kind words produce their images on men's souls.

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  Men, Soul, Kind

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• A man does not show his greatness by being at one extremity, but rather by touching both at once.

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  Greatness, Men, Touching

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• Passion cannot be beautiful without excess; one either loves too much or not enough.

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  Beautiful, Passion, Excess

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• Continuous eloquence wearies.

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  Eloquence

  Blaise Pascal (2010). “Thoughts, Letters and Minor Works”, p.122, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Few friendships would survive if each one knew what his friend says of him behind his back.

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  Friendship, Emotional, Behinds

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• There are two kinds of people one can call reasonable: those who serve God with all their heart because they know him, and those who seek him with all their heart because they do not know him.

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  Heart, Two, People

  Blaise Pascal (2013). “Pensées”, p.58, Courier Corporation

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• Chess is the gymnasium of the mind.

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  Mind, Chess, Gymnasiums

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• Reason's last step is to acknowledge that there are infinitely many things
  beyond it.

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  Lasts, Steps, Reason

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• When I see the blind and wretched state of men, when I survey the whole universe in its deadness, and man left to himself with no light, as though lost in this corner of the universe without knowing who put him there, what he has to do, or what will become of him when he dies, incapable of knowing anything, I am moved to terror, like a man transported in his sleep to some terrifying desert island, who wakes up quite lost, with no means of escape. Then I marvel that so wretched a state does not drive people to despair.

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  Atheist, Mean, Sleep

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• Our achievements of today are but the sum total of our thoughts of yesterday.

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  Yesterday, Achievement, Today

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• Those we call the ancients were really new in everything.

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• True eloquence makes light of eloquence. True morality makes light of morality.

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  Light, Morality, Eloquence

  Blaise Pascal (2010). “Thoughts, Letters and Minor Works”, p.10, Cosimo, Inc.

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• If man made himself the first object of study, he would see how incapable he is of going further. How can a part know the whole?

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  Men, Firsts, Study

  Blaise Pascal (2010). “Thoughts, Letters & Minor Works”, p.30, Cosimo, Inc.

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• All men seek happiness. There are no exceptions.... This is the motive of every act of every man, including those who go and hang themselves.

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  Men, Motive, Exception

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

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• Kind words produce their own image in men's souls; and a beautiful image it is. They soothe and quiet and comfort the hearer. They shame him out of his sour, morose, unkind feelings. We have not yet begun to use kind words in such abundance as they ought to be used.

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  Beautiful, Uplifting, Kindness

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• One must know oneself. If this does not serve to discover truth, it at least serves as a rule of life and there is nothing better.

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  Inspirational, Being Yourself, Discovery

  Blaise Pascal (2013). “Pensées”, p.15, Courier Corporation

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• The secrets of nature are concealed; her agency is perpetual, but we do not always discover its effects; time reveals them from age to age; and although she is always the same in herself, she is not always equally well known.

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  Nature, Agency, Secret

  Blaise Pascal, Nkosi Ajanaku (1838). “Thoughts on Religion and Philosophy”, p.337

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• Unable to make what is just strong, we have made what is strong just.

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  Strong, Justice, Social Justice

  Blaise Pascal (2013). “Pascal's Pensees”, p.88, Simon and Schuster

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• There are two equally dangerous extremes-to shut reason out, and to let nothing else in.

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  Two, Reason, Dangerous

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• To go beyond the bounds of moderation is to outrage humanity. The greatness of the human soul is shown by knowing how to keep within proper bounds. There are two equally dangerous extremes- to shut reason out, and not to let nothing in.

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  Greatness, Two, Knowing

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• Lust is the source of all our actions, and humanity.

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  Humanity, Lust, Our Actions

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

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• All that tends not to charity is figurative. The sole aim of the Scripture is charity.

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  Charity, Scripture, Sole

  Blaise Pascal (2007). “Thoughts”, p.227, Cosimo, Inc.

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• When we would show any one that he is mistaken, our best course is to observe on what side he considers the subject,--for his view of if is generally right on this side,--and admit to him that he is right so far. He will be satisfied with this acknowledgment, that he was not wrong in his judgment, but only inadvertent in not looking at the whole case.

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  Views, Sides, Argument

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