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Blaise Pascal
Nature has made all her truths independent of one another. Our art makes one dependent on the other. But this is not natural. Each keeps its own place.
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Nature
Truths
Independent
Art
Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary.
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Small
Minds
Concerned
Extraordinary
We cannot endure being despised, or not being esteemed by any soul; and all the happiness of men consists in this esteem.
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Endure
Despised
Esteemed
Soul
Men often take their imagination for their heart; and they believe they are converted as soon as they think of being converted.
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Men
Imagination
Heart
Converted
As men are not able to fight against death, misery, ignorance, they have taken it into their heads, in order to be happy, not to think of them at all.
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Men
Fight
Death
Misery
To make a man a saint, it must indeed be by grace; and whoever doubts this does not know what a saint is, or a man.
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Man
Saint
Grace
Doubts
All the principles of skeptics, stoics, atheists, etc., are true. But their conclusions are false, because the opposite principles are also true.
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Principles
Atheists
True
Conclusions
Equality of possessions is no doubt right, but, as men could not make might obey right, they have made right obey might. 299
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Equality
Possessions
Doubt
Men
Man must not think that he is on a level either with the brutes or with the angels, nor must he be ignorant of both sides of his nature; but he must know both.
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Man
Brutes
Angels
Ignorant
I have discovered that all human evil comes from this, man's being unable to sit still in a room.
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Discovered
Human
Evil
Man
It is natural for the mind to believe and for the will to love; so that, for want of true objects, they must attach themselves to false.
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Natural
Mind
Love
True
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.
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Write
Fame
Read
Works
All the miseries of mankind come from one thing, not knowing how to remain alone.
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Miseries
Mankind
Thing
Remain
Habit is a second nature that destroys the first. But what is nature? Why is habit not natural? I am very much afraid that nature itself is only a first habit, just as habit is a second nature.
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Habit
Nature
Destroy
Natural
To be happy man would have to make himself immortal; but, not being able to do so, it has occurred to him to prevent himself from thinking of death.
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Happy
Man
Immortal
Occurred
Man is so made that if he is told often enough that he is a fool he believes it.
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Man
Fool
Believes
Evil is easy, and has infinite forms.
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Evil
Easy
Infinite
As nature is an image of grace, he has done in the bounties of nature what he would do in those of grace, in order that we might judge that he could make the invisible, since he made the visible excellently.
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Nature
Image
Grace
Order
It is to judgment that perception belongs, as science belongs to intellect. Intuition is the part of judgment, mathematics of intellect.
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Judgment
Perception
Science
Intellect
Atheism shows strength of mind, but only to a certain degree.
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Atheism
Strength
Mind
Degree