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“They [men] have corrupted this [God's supernatural] order by making profane things what they should make of holy things, because in fact, we believe scarcely any thing except which pleases us.”

Blaise Pascal

The Art of Persuasion

“Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much”

Blaise Pascal

Variant: Kind words don't cost much. Yet they accomplish much.

“You always admire what you really don't understand.”

Blaise Pascal

“All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone.”

Blaise Pascal Pensées

Variant: All men's miseries derive from not being able to sit quiet in a room alone.
Source: Pensées

“The heart has its reasons which reason knows not of.”

Blaise Pascal

“To understand is to forgive.”

Blaise Pascal

“What would you say of that man who was made king by the error of the people, if he had so far forgotten his natural condition as to imagine that this kingdom was due to him, that he deserved it, and that it belonged to him of right? You would marvel at his stupidity and folly.”

Blaise Pascal

But is there less in the people of rank who live in so strange a forgetfulness of their natural condition?
Discourses on the Condition of the Great

“It is not certain that everything is uncertain.”

Blaise Pascal

Source: Pascal's Pensees

“Chance favors only the prepared mind.”

Blaise Pascal

“There are hardly any truths upon which we always remain agreed, and still fewer objects of pleasure which we do not change every hour, I do not know whether there is a means of giving fixed rules for adapting discourse to the inconstancy of our caprices.”

Blaise Pascal

The Art of Persuasion

“Rules for Definitions. I. Not to undertake to define any of the things so well known of themselves that the clearer terms cannot be had to explain them. II. Not to leave any terms that are at all obscure or ambiguous without definition. III. Not to employ in the definition of terms any words but such as are perfectly known or already explained.”

Blaise Pascal

The Art of Persuasion

“There are some men who expose themselves to damnation so foolishly by avarice, by brutality, by debauches, by violence, by excesses, by blasphemies! …it is always a great folly for a man to expose himself to damnation… He must despise desire and its kingdom, and aspire to that kingdom of love in which all the subjects breathe nothing but love, and desire nothing but the benefits of love.”

Blaise Pascal

Discourses on the Condition of the Great

“The art of persuasion consists as much in that of pleasing as in that of convincing, so much more are men governed by caprice than by reason!”

Blaise Pascal

The Art of Persuasion