All men's miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.
Blaise Pascal
All of our reasoning ends in surrender to feeling.
Blaise Pascal
As men are not able to fight against death, misery, ignorance, they have taken it into their heads, in order to be happy, not to think of them at all.
Blaise Pascal
Atheism shows strength of mind, but only to a certain degree.
Blaise Pascal
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.
Blaise Pascal
Between us and heaven or hell there is only life, which is the frailest thing in the world.
Blaise Pascal
Can anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of a river and his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have not quarrelled with him?
Blaise Pascal
Chance gives rise to thoughts, and chance removes them; no art can keep or acquire them.
Blaise Pascal
Concupiscence and force are the source of all our actions; concupiscence causes voluntary actions, force involuntary ones.
Blaise Pascal
Continuous eloquence wearies. Grandeur must be abandoned to be appreciated. Continuity in everything is unpleasant. Cold is agreeable, that we may get warm.
Blaise Pascal
Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth.
Blaise Pascal
Custom is our nature. What are our natural principles but principles of custom?
Blaise Pascal
Desire and force between them are responsible for all our actions; desire causes our voluntary acts, force our involuntary.
Blaise Pascal
Do you wish people to think well of you? Don't speak well of yourself.
Blaise Pascal
Earnestness is enthusiasm tempered by reason.
Blaise Pascal
Eloquence is a painting of the thoughts.
Blaise Pascal
Even those who write against fame wish for the fame of having written well, and those who read their works desire the fame of having read them.
Blaise Pascal
Evil is easy, and has infinite forms.
Blaise Pascal
Faith certainly tells us what the senses do not, but not the contrary of what they see; it is above, not against them.
Blaise Pascal
Faith embraces many truths which seem to contradict each other.
Blaise Pascal
Faith indeed tells what the senses do not tell, but not the contrary of what they see. It is above them and not contrary to them.
Blaise Pascal
Faith is different from proof; the latter is human, the former is a Gift from God.
Blaise Pascal
Few friendships would survive if each one knew what his friend says of him behind his back.
Blaise Pascal
Habit is a second nature that destroys the first. But what is nature? Why is habit not natural? I am very much afraid that nature itself is only a first habit, just as habit is a second nature.
Blaise Pascal
Had Cleopatra's nose been shorter, the whole face of the world would have changed.
Blaise Pascal
Happiness is neither without us nor within us. It is in God, both without us and within us.
Blaise Pascal
He that takes truth for his guide, and duty for his end, may safely trust to God's providence to lead him aright.
Blaise Pascal
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