French - Philosopher | June 19, 1623 - August 19, 1662
The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble.
Blaise Pascal
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Eloquence is a painting of the thoughts.
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Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary.
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Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.
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All men's miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.
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The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
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In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don't.
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Justice without force is powerless; force without justice is tyrannical.
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Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it.
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We sail within a vast sphere, ever drifting in uncertainty, driven from end to end.
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Man's greatness lies in his power of thought.
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Belief is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved, what harm will come to you if you gamble on its truth and it proves false? If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists.
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