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“In difficult times carry something beautiful in your heart.”

Blaise Pascal (1623–1662) French mathematician, physicist, inventor, writer, and Christian philosopher

“Men are so necessarily mad, that not to be mad would amount to another form of madness.”

Blaise Pascal Pensées

“There are only two kinds of men: the righteous who think they are sinners and the sinners who think they are righteous.”

Blaise Pascal Pensées

“The more I see of Mankind, the more I prefer my dog.”

Blaise Pascal (1623–1662) French mathematician, physicist, inventor, writer, and Christian philosopher

“Justice without force is powerless; force without justice is tyrannical.”

Blaise Pascal (1623–1662) French mathematician, physicist, inventor, writer, and Christian philosopher

“Belief is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved, what harm will come to you if you gamble on its truth and it proves false? If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists.”

Blaise Pascal Pensées

“Can anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of a river and his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have not quarrelled with him?”

Blaise Pascal (1623–1662) French mathematician, physicist, inventor, writer, and Christian philosopher

“Love knows no limit to its endurance, no end to its trust, no fading of its hope; it can outlast anything. Love still stands when all else has fallen.”

Blaise Pascal (1623–1662) French mathematician, physicist, inventor, writer, and Christian philosopher

“Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too; this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and sees distinctly what it loves.”

Blaise Pascal (1623–1662) French mathematician, physicist, inventor, writer, and Christian philosopher

“The greater intellect one has, the more originality one finds in men. Ordinary persons find no difference between men.”

Blaise Pascal Pensées

“Man is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness from which he emerges and the infinity in which he is engulfed.”

Blaise Pascal (1623–1662) French mathematician, physicist, inventor, writer, and Christian philosopher

“Little things comfort us because little things distress us.”

Blaise Pascal (1623–1662) French mathematician, physicist, inventor, writer, and Christian philosopher

“Few men speak humbly of humility, chastely of chastity, skeptically of skepticism.”

Blaise Pascal (1623–1662) French mathematician, physicist, inventor, writer, and Christian philosopher

“Do you wish people to think well of you? Don't speak well of yourself.”

Blaise Pascal (1623–1662) French mathematician, physicist, inventor, writer, and Christian philosopher

“To ridicule philosophy is really to philosophize.”

Blaise Pascal Pensées

“Man's sensitivity to the little things and insensitivity to the greatest are the signs of a strange disorder.”

Blaise Pascal (1623–1662) French mathematician, physicist, inventor, writer, and Christian philosopher

“It is a natural illness of man to think that he possesses the truth directly…”

Blaise Pascal (1623–1662) French mathematician, physicist, inventor, writer, and Christian philosopher

“We are generally the better persuaded by the reasons we discover ourselves than by those given to us by others.”

Blaise Pascal Pensées

“Dull minds are never either intuitive or mathematical.”

Blaise Pascal Pensées