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• There are plenty of maxims in the world; all that remains is to apply them.

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  World, All That Remains, Maxims

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• St. Augustine teaches us that there is in each man a Serpent, an Eve, and an Adam. Our senses and natural propensities are the Serpent; the excitable desire is the Eve; and reason is the Adam. Our nature tempts us perpetually; criminal desire is often excited; but sin is not completed till reason consents.

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  Men, Temptation, Desire

  Blaise Pascal (1849). “Thoughts of Blaise Pascal”, p.371

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• Philosophers.-We are full of things which take us out of ourselves.

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  Philosopher

  Blaise Pascal (2016). “Pensées”, p.174, Open Road Media

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• We think very little of time present; we anticipate the future, as being too slow, and with a view to hasten it onward, we recall the past to stay it as too swiftly gone. We are so thoughtless, that we thus wander through the hours which are not here, regardless only of the moment that is actually our own.

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  Time, Past, Thinking

  Blaise Pascal (1829). “Thoughts on Religion and Other Subjects”, p.75

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• What part of us feels pleasure? Is it our hand, our arm, our flesh, or our blood? It must obviously be something immaterial.

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  Blood, Hands, Flesh

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

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• When I have occasionally set myself to consider the different distractions of men, the pains and perils to which they expose themselves I have discovered that all the unhappiness of men arises from one single fact, that they cannot stay quietly in their own chamber.

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  Pain, Men, Facts

  Blaise Pascal (2007). “Thoughts”, p.52, Cosimo, Inc.

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• The heart has arguments with which the logic of mind is not aquainted.

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  Heart, Mind, Logic

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• Force rules the world-not opinion; but it is opinion that makes use of force.

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  Use, World, Opinion

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• A mere trifle consoles us, for a mere trifle distresses us.

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  Trifles, Distress, Console

  "Pensées".

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• Those who are clever in imagination are far more pleased with themselves than prudent men could reasonably be.

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  Clever, Men, Imagination

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

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• We must keep our thought secret, and judge everything by it, while talking like the people.

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  Talking, People, Judging

  Blaise Pascal (2007). “Thoughts”, p.117, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Good deeds, when concealed, are the most admirable.

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  Deeds, Good Deeds, Admirable

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• To understand is to forgive.

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  Forgiveness, Understanding, Forgiving

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• Everything that is written merely to please the author is worthless.

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  Writing, Mathematical, Please

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• There is nothing that we can see on earth which does not either show the wretchedness of man or the mercy of God. One either sees the powerlessness of man without God, or the strength of man with God.

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  Men, Mercy Of God, Doe

  Blaise Pascal, James M. Houston (2006). “The Mind on Fire: Faith for the Skeptical and Indifferent”, p.53, David C Cook

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• Men despise religion. They hate it and are afraid it may be true.

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  Fear, Hate, Men

  Blaise Pascal (2013). “Pensées”, p.300, Courier Corporation

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• One of the greatest artifices the devil uses to engage men in vice and debauchery, is to fasten names of contempt on certain virtues, and thus fill weak souls with a foolish fear of passing for scrupulous, should they desire to put them in practice.

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  Men, Practice, Names

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• Since we cannot know all that there is to be known about anything, we ought to know a little about everything.

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  Knowledge, Science, Littles

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• What amazes me most is to see that everyone is not amazed at his own weakness.

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  Weakness, Amazed

  "Human Happiness".

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• Parents fear the destruction of natural affection in their children. What is this natural principle so liable to decay? Habit is a second nature, which destroys the first. Why is not custom nature? I suspect that this nature itself is but a first custom, as custom is a second nature.

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  Children, Parent, Firsts

  Blaise Pascal (1828). “Thoughts on religion, and other subjects”, p.112

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• The state of man is inconstancy, ennui, anxiety.

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  Life, Men, Anxiety

  "Pensées" (1669), Article VI. 46 in "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, (pp. 440-455), 1922.

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• It is not in Montaigne, but in myself, that I find all that I see in him.

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  Reading, Literature

  Blaise Pascal (2007). “Thoughts”, p.24, Cosimo, Inc.

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• The sensitivity of men to small matters, and their indifference to great ones, indicates a strange inversion.

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  Men, Matter, Strange

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• We view things not only from different sides, but with different eyes; we have no wish to find them alike.

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  Eye, Views, Two Sides

  Blaise Pascal (2013). “Pascal's Pensees”, p.39, Simon and Schuster

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• It is certain that the soul is either mortal or immortal. The decision of this question must make a total difference in the principles of morals. Yet philosophers have arranged their moral system entirely independent of this. What an extraordinary blindness!

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  Independent, Differences, Decision

  Blaise Pascal (1829). “Thoughts on Religion and Other Subjects”, p.215

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