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So, the fear of death might be described as the fear of not being able to become whom one had planned to be.


Pascal Mercier

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BLAISE PASCAL It is superstitious to put one's hopes in formalities, but arrogant to refuse to submit to them.
BLAISE PASCAL Nothing is as approved as mediocrity, the majority has established it and it fixes it fangs on whate...
BLAISE PASCAL It is right that what is just should be obeyed. It is necessary that what is strongest should be obe...
BLAISE PASCAL To go beyond the bounds of moderation is to outrage humanity.
BLAISE PASCAL I have made this letter longer, because I have not had the time to make it shorter.
BLAISE PASCAL The gospel to me is simply irresistible.
BLAISE PASCAL Animals do not admire each other. A horse does not admire its companion.
BLAISE PASCAL Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth.
BLAISE PASCAL Nothing gives rest but the sincere search for truth.
BLAISE PASCAL Our nature consist in motion; complete rest is death.
BLAISE PASCAL There are only two kinds of men: the righteous who think they are sinners and the sinners who think ...
BLAISE PASCAL The only shame is to have none
BLAISE PASCAL It is the fight alone that pleases us, not the victory.
BLAISE PASCAL The stream is always purer at its source. [Fr., Les choses valent toujours mieux dans leur source....
BLAISE PASCAL The vanity of the sciences. Physical science will not console me for the ignorance of morality in th...
BLAISE PASCAL Those who do not hate their own selfishness and regard themselves as more important than the rest of...
BLAISE PASCAL It is in vain, 0 men, that you seek within yourselves the cure for your miseries. All your insight o...
BLAISE PASCAL All man's miseries derive from not being able to sit quietly in a room alone.
BLAISE PASCAL If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world.
BLAISE PASCAL Men never do evil so fully and so happily as when they do it for conscience's sake.
BLAISE PASCAL What use is it to us to hear it said of a man that he has thrown off the yoke, that he does not beli...
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