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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.


Blaise Pascal

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BLAISE PASCAL The multitude which is not brought to act as a unity, is confusion. That unity which has not its ori...
BLAISE PASCAL Any unity which doesn't have its origin in the multitudes is tyranny.
BLAISE PASCAL Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too; this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and...
BLAISE PASCAL What a strange vanity painting is; it attracts admiration by resembling the original, we do not admi...
BLAISE PASCAL Thus so wretched is man that he would weary even without any cause for weariness... and so frivolous...
BLAISE PASCAL The present is never our goal: the past and present are our means: the future alone is our goal. Thu...
BLAISE PASCAL A mere trifle consoles us for a mere trifle distresses us.
BLAISE PASCAL Noble deeds that are concealed are most esteemed
BLAISE PASCAL Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from a religious conviction
BLAISE PASCAL The consciousness of the falsity of present pleasures, and the ignorance of the vanity of absent ple...
BLAISE PASCAL The weather and my mood have little connection. I have my foggy and my fine days within me; my prosp...
BLAISE PASCAL Therefore, those to whom God has imparted religion by intuition are very fortunate and justly convin...
BLAISE PASCAL It is good to be tired and wearied by the futile search after the true good, that we may stretch out...
BLAISE PASCAL The eternal silence of these infinite spaces frightens me.
BLAISE PASCAL We are usually convinced more easily by reasons we have found ourselves than by reasons which have o...
BLAISE PASCAL Not only do we not know God except through Jesus Christ; We do not even know ourselves except throug...
BLAISE PASCAL Commemoration of Osmund, Bishop of Salisbury, 1099 What does this desire and this inability of our...
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