Discourses on humility are a source of pride in the vain and of h... by Blaise Pascal

Discourses on humility are a source of pride in the vain and of humility in the humble.

Blaise Pascal

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Look somewhere else for someone who can follow you in your researches about numbers. For my part, I confess that they are far beyond me, and I am competent only to admire them.

somewhere-else math numbers

Rivers are highways that move on and bear us whither we wish to g... by Blaise Pascal

Rivers are highways that move on and bear us whither we wish to go.

wish rivers moving

Our true dignity consists — in thought. Thence we must derive our elevation, not from space or duration. Let us endeavor then to think well; this is the principle of morals.

morality principles thinking

Vanity is illustrated in the cause and effect of love, as in the... by Blaise Pascal

Vanity is illustrated in the cause and effect of love, as in the case of Cleopatra.

vanity cases causes

No animal admires another animal. by Blaise Pascal

No animal admires another animal.

admire pet animal

Our natures lie in motion, without which we die. by Blaise Pascal

Our natures lie in motion, without which we die.

dies change lying

Religion is so great a thing that it is right that those who will not take the trouble to seek it if it be obscure, should be deprived of it.

trouble math religion

Men often take their imagination for their heart; and they believe they are converted as soon as they think of being converted.

heart men believe

All sorrow has its root in man's inability to sit quiet in a room... by Blaise Pascal

All sorrow has its root in man's inability to sit quiet in a room by himself.

sorrow roots men

The charm of fame is so great that we like every object to which... by Blaise Pascal

The charm of fame is so great that we like every object to which it is attached, even death.

charm reputation fame

There should be in eloquence that which is pleasing and that which is real; but that which is pleasing should itself be real.

being-real real should

Christian piety annihilates the egoism of the heart; worldly poli... by Blaise Pascal

Christian piety annihilates the egoism of the heart; worldly politeness veils and represses it.

veils christian heart

It is not possible to have reasonable grounds for not believing i... by Blaise Pascal

It is not possible to have reasonable grounds for not believing in miracles.

reasonable miracle believe

True eloquence scorns eloquence. by Blaise Pascal

True eloquence scorns eloquence.

eloquence scorn

Dans une grande a" me tout est grand. In a great soul everything... by Blaise Pascal

Dans une grande a" me tout est grand. In a great soul everything isgreat.

great-souls soul

The manner in which Epictetus, Montaigne, and Salomon de Tultie wrote, is the most usual, the most suggestive, the most remembered, and the oftener quoted; because it is entirely composed of thoughts born from the common talk of life.

born usual common

Parents fear the destruction of natural affection in their children. What is this natural principle so liable to decay? Habit is a second nature, which destroys the first. Why is not custom nature? I suspect that this nature itself is but a first custom, as custom is a second nature.

parent children firsts

There is no arena in which vanity displays itself under such a va... by Blaise Pascal

There is no arena in which vanity displays itself under such a variety of forms as in conversation.

arena vanity form

Reason commands us far more imperiously than a master; for in disobeying the one we are unfortunate, and in disobeying the other we are fools.

intelligence fool wisdom

There is nothing so insupportable to man as to be in entire repose, without passion, occupation, amusement, or application. Then it is that he feels his own nothingness, isolation, insignificance, dependent nature, powerless, emptiness. Immediately there issue from his soul ennui, sadness, chagrin, vexation, despair.

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