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It is not good to be too free. It is not good to have everything one wants.
Blaise Pascal
Good, Free, Wants
Desire and force between them are responsible for all our actions; desire causes our voluntary acts, force our involuntary.
Blaise Pascal
Between, Desire, Force
That we must love one God only is a thing so evident that it does not require miracles to prove it.
Blaise Pascal
Love, God, Miracles
The self is hateful.
Blaise Pascal
Self, Hateful
A trifle consoles us, for a trifle distresses us.
Blaise Pascal
Distresses, Consoles, Trifle
Custom is our nature. What are our natural principles but principles of custom?
Blaise Pascal
Nature, Natural, Principles
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
Wish, Write, Against
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, Against, Above
I can well conceive a man without hands, feet, head. But I cannot conceive man without thought; he would be a stone or a brute.
Blaise Pascal
Thought, Cannot, Head
If our condition were truly happy, we would not seek diversion from it in order to make ourselves happy.
Blaise Pascal
Happy, Ourselves, Order
Imagination decides everything.
Blaise Pascal
Decides
It is incomprehensible that God should exist, and it is incomprehensible that he should not exist.
Blaise Pascal
God, Exist
It is the fight alone that pleases us, not the victory.
Blaise Pascal
Alone, Fight, Victory
Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed.
Blaise Pascal
Nature, Thinking, Feeble
Men blaspheme what they do not know.
Blaise Pascal
Men
Nothing fortifies scepticism more than the fact that there are some who are not sceptics; if all were so, they would be wrong.
Blaise Pascal
Nothing, Wrong, Fact
One must know oneself. If this does not serve to discover truth, it at least serves as a rule of life and there is nothing better.
Blaise Pascal
Life, Truth, Nothing
The consciousness of the falsity of present pleasures, and the ignorance of the vanity of absent pleasures, cause inconstancy.
Blaise Pascal
Ignorance, Present, Cause
The eternal silence of these infinite spaces frightens me.
Blaise Pascal
Silence, Eternal, Infinite
The greater intellect one has, the more originality one finds in men. Ordinary persons find no difference between men.
Blaise Pascal
Men, Find, Between
The last act is bloody, however pleasant all the rest of the play is: a little earth is thrown at last upon our head, and that is the end forever.
Blaise Pascal
End, Play, Last
The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble.
Blaise Pascal
Nature, Ocean, Movement
Through space the universe encompasses and swallows me up like an atom; through thought I comprehend the world.
Blaise Pascal
Through, Thought, Universe
Vanity is but the surface.
Blaise Pascal
Vanity, Surface
We only consult the ear because the heart is wanting.
Blaise Pascal
Heart, Wanting, Consult

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Biography

Nationality: French
Born: June 19, 1623
Died: August 19, 1662

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