La dernière chose qu'on trouve en faisant un ouvrage est de savoir celle qu'il faut mettre la première. (The last thing one settles in writing a book is what one should put in first.)


Blaise Pascal

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Curiosity is only vanity. We usually only want to know something so that we can talk about it.
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Vanity of science. Knowledge of physical science will not console me for ignorance of morality in ti...
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Little things console us because little things afflict us.
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The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble.
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You always admire what you really don't understand.
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Justice and truth are too such subtle points that our tools are too blunt to touch them accurately.
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The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
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Belief is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved, what harm will come to you if you gambl...
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Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary.
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Time heals griefs and quarrels, for we change and are no longer the same persons. Neither the offend...
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All men's miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.
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In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who d...
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Nature is an infinite sphere of which the center is everywhere and the circumference nowhere.
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Can anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me because he lives on the other side...
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Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.
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In each action we must look beyond the action at our past, present, and future state, and at others ...
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I lay it down as a fact that if all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friend...
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Atheism shows strength of mind, but only to a certain degree.
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We run carelessly to the precipice, after we have put something before us to prevent us seeing it.
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If man made himself the first object of study, he would see how incapable he is of going further. Ho...
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Through space the universe encompasses and swallows me up like an atom; through thought I comprehend...
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When we see a natural style, we are astonished and charmed; for we expected to see an author, and we...
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Words differently arranged have a different meaning, and meanings differently arranged have differen...
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Nothing is as approved as mediocrity, the majority has established it and it fixes its fangs on what...
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Rivers are roads that move and carry us whither we wish to go. [Fr., Les rivieres sont des chemins...
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He who does not know his way to the sea should take a river for his guide. [Fr., Les rivieres son...
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Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed. The entire universe n...
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I have only made this letter rather long because I have not had time to make it shorter. [Fr., Je...
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Imagination disposes of everything; it creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which are everything ...
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If our condition were truly happy, we would not seek diversion from it in order to make ourselves ha...
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We view things not only from different sides, but with different eyes; we have no wish to find them ...
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To go beyond the bounds of moderation is to outrage humanity.
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I have made this [letter] longer, because I have not had the time to make it shorter.
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A jester, a bad character. [Fr., Diseur de bon mots, mauvais caractere.]
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It is not only old and early impressions that deceive us; the charms of novelty have the same power.
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We think very little of time present; we anticipate the future, as being too slow, and with a view t...
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By a peculiar prerogative, not only each individual is making daily advances in the sciences, and ma...
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For after all what is man in nature? A nothing in relation to infinity, all in relation to nothing, ...
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Man is to himself the most wonderful object in nature; for he cannot conceive what the body is, stil...
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We know truth, not only by reason, but also by the heart.
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We are generally the better persuaded by the reasons we discover ourselves than by those given to us...
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The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of.
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Since we cannot know all that there is to be known about anything, we ought to know a little about e...
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People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found by other...
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One must know oneself, if this does not serve to discover truth, it at least serves as a rule of lif...
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Man is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness from which he emerges and the infinity in which h...
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Few men speak humbly of humility, chastely of chastity, skeptically of skepticism.
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Force rules the world, and not opinion; but opinion is that which makes use of force.
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Curiosity is only vanity. Most frequently we wish not to know, but to talk. We would not take a sea ...
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Vanity is so secure in the heart of man that everyone wants to be admired : even I who write this, a...
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The multitude which is not brought to act as a unity, is confusion. That unity which has not its ori...
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Any unity which doesn't have its origin in the multitudes is tyranny.
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Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too; this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and...
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What a strange vanity painting is; it attracts admiration by resembling the original, we do not admi...
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Thus so wretched is man that he would weary even without any cause for weariness... and so frivolous...
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The present is never our goal: the past and present are our means: the future alone is our goal. Thu...
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A mere trifle consoles us for a mere trifle distresses us.
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Noble deeds that are concealed are most esteemed
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Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from a religious conviction
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The consciousness of the falsity of present pleasures, and the ignorance of the vanity of absent ple...
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The weather and my mood have little connection. I have my foggy and my fine days within me; my prosp...
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Therefore, those to whom God has imparted religion by intuition are very fortunate and justly convin...
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It is good to be tired and wearied by the futile search after the true good, that we may stretch out...
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The eternal silence of these infinite spaces frightens me.
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We are usually convinced more easily by reasons we have found ourselves than by reasons which have o...
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Not only do we not know God except through Jesus Christ; We do not even know ourselves except throug...
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