| 86 Famous Quotes by Blaise Pascal
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“Justice and power must be brought together, so that whatever is just may be powerful, and whatever is powerful may be just.”
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“Justice and power must be brought together, so that whatever is just may be powerful, and whatever is powerful may be just.”
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“It is false zeal to keep truth while wounding charity”
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“You always admire what you really don't understand.”
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“Man's greatness lies in his power of thought.”
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“The heart has reasons that reason cannot know.”
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“Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.”
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“Nature is an infinite sphere whose center is everywhere and whose circumference is nowhere”
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“The vanity of the sciences. Physical science will not console me for the ignorance of morality in the time of affliction. But the science of ethics will always console me for the ignorance of the physical sciences.”
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“Men of quality are not threatened by women of equality”
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“The heart has reasons that reason cannot know.”
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“Those who do not hate their own selfishness and regard themselves as more important than the rest of the world are blind because the truth lies elsewhere”
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“The only shame is to have none”
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“The present is never our goal: the past and present are our means: the future alone is our goal. Thus, we never live but we hope to live; and always hoping to be happy, it is inevitable that we will never be so.”
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“A mere trifle consoles us for a mere trifle distresses us.”
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“The power of a man's virtue should not be measured by his special efforts, but by his ordinary doing”
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“If the nose of Cleopatra had been shorter, the whole face of the
earth would have been changed.”
Influence Quotes Source: Thoughts (ch. VIII, 29)
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“Opinion is the queen of the world.
[Lat., Della opinione regina del mondo.]”
Opinion Quotes Source: quoted as the title of an Italian work
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“He adopts the opinion of others like a monk in the Sorbonne.
[Fr., Il opine du bonnet comme un moine en Sorbonne.]”
Opinion Quotes Source: Lettres Provinciales (II)
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“Force and not opinion is the queen of the world; but it is
opinion that uses the force.
[Fr., La force est la reine du monde, et non pas l'opinion; mais
l'opinion est celle qui use de la force.]”
Opinion Quotes Source: Pensees (art XXIV, 92)
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“A jester, a bad character.
[Fr., Diseur de bon mots, mauvais caractere.]”
Jesting Quotes Source: Pensees (art VI, 22)
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“He who does not know his way to the sea should take a river for
his guide.
[Fr., Les rivieres sont des chemins qui marchant et qui portent
ou l'on veut aller.]”
Rivers Quotes Source: Pensees (VII, 38)
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“Rivers are roads that move and carry us whither we wish to go.
[Fr., Les rivieres sont des chemins qui marchant et qui portent
ou l'on veut aller.]”
Rivers Quotes Source: Pensees (VII, 38)
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“The stream is always purer at its source.
[Fr., Les choses valent toujours mieux dans leur source.]”
Purity Quotes Source: Lettres Provinciales (IV)
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“To ridicule philosophy is truly philosophical.
[Fr., Se moquer de la philosophie c'est vraiment philosophe.]”
Philosophy Quotes Source: Pensees (act VII, 35)
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