French - Philosopher | June 19, 1623 - August 19, 1662
Love has reasons which reason cannot understand.
Blaise Pascal
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In each action we must look beyond the action at our past, present, and future state, and at others whom it affects, and see the relations of all those things. And then we shall be very cautious.
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If you gain, you gain all. If you lose, you lose nothing. Wager then, without hesitation, that He exists.
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Our soul is cast into a body, where it finds number, time, dimension. Thereupon it reasons, and calls this nature necessity, and can believe nothing else.
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I have made this letter longer than usual, only because I have not had the time to make it shorter.
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It is the fight alone that pleases us, not the victory.
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People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found by others.
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We are only falsehood, duplicity, contradiction; we both conceal and disguise ourselves from ourselves.
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We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.
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If our condition were truly happy, we would not seek diversion from it in order to make ourselves happy.
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Men are so necessarily mad, that not to be mad would amount to another form of madness.
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Our nature consists in motion; complete rest is death.
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