No soul of high estate can take pleasure in slander. It betrays a weakness.

Quote by Blaise Pascal

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As men are not able to fight against death, misery, ignorance, they have taken it...

As men are not able to fight against death, misery, ignorance, they have taken it...

Live free or die

Live free or die

For as old age is that period of life most remote from infancy, who does...

For as old age is that period of life most remote from infancy, who does...

Custom is our nature. What are our natural principles but principles of custom?

Custom is our nature. What are our natural principles but principles of custom?

Love has reasons which reason cannot understand.

Love has reasons which reason cannot understand.

Nothing is as approved as mediocrity, the majority has established it and it fixes it...

Nothing is as approved as mediocrity, the majority has established it and it fixes it...

We like security: we like the pope to be infallible in matters of faith, and...

We like security: we like the pope to be infallible in matters of faith, and...

Jesus is the God whom we can approach without pride and before whom we can...

Jesus is the God whom we can approach without pride and before whom we can...

Eloquence is a painting of the thoughts.

Eloquence is a painting of the thoughts.

The knowledge of God is very far from the love of Him.

The knowledge of God is very far from the love of Him.

Evil is easy, and has infinite forms.

Evil is easy, and has infinite forms.

One must know oneself. If this does not serve to discover truth, it at least...

One must know oneself. If this does not serve to discover truth, it at least...

The knowledge of God without that of man's misery causes pride. The knowledge of man's...

The knowledge of God without that of man's misery causes pride. The knowledge of man's...

It is incomprehensible that God should exist, and it is incomprehensible that he should not...

It is incomprehensible that God should exist, and it is incomprehensible that he should not...

We never, then, love a person, but only qualities

We never, then, love a person, but only qualities

Vanity is but the surface.

Vanity is but the surface.

Nothing fortifies scepticism more than the fact that there are some who are not sceptics;...

Nothing fortifies scepticism more than the fact that there are some who are not sceptics;...

When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were...

When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were...

A trifle consoles us, for a trifle distresses us.

A trifle consoles us, for a trifle distresses us.

If we must not act save on a certainty, we ought not to act on...

If we must not act save on a certainty, we ought not to act on...