The power of a man's virtue should not be measured by his special efforts, but by his ordinary doing

Quote by Blaise Pascal

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Vanity is so secure in the heart of man that everyone wants to be admired:...

Vanity is so secure in the heart of man that everyone wants to be admired:...

The sensitivity of men to small matters, and their indifference to great ones, indicates a...

The sensitivity of men to small matters, and their indifference to great ones, indicates a...

It is the heart which perceives God and not the reason. That is what faith...

It is the heart which perceives God and not the reason. That is what faith...

Without Jesus Christ man must be in vice and misery; with Jesus Christ man is...

Without Jesus Christ man must be in vice and misery; with Jesus Christ man is...

People are generally better persuaded by the reasons which they have themselves discovered than by...

People are generally better persuaded by the reasons which they have themselves discovered than by...

All human evil comes from a single cause, man's inability to sit still in a...

All human evil comes from a single cause, man's inability to sit still in a...

Christianity is strange. It bids man recognise that he is vile, even abominable, and bids...

Christianity is strange. It bids man recognise that he is vile, even abominable, and bids...

However vast a man's spiritual resources, he is capable of but one great passion

However vast a man's spiritual resources, he is capable of but one great passion

Vanity of science. Knowledge of physical science will not console me for ignorance of morality...

Vanity of science. Knowledge of physical science will not console me for ignorance of morality...

The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.

The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.

Faith is different from proof; the latter is human, the former is a Gift from...

Faith is different from proof; the latter is human, the former is a Gift from...

If man made himself the first object of study, he would see how incapable he...

If man made himself the first object of study, he would see how incapable he...

Atheism shows strength of mind, but only to a certain degree.

Atheism shows strength of mind, but only to a certain degree.

If all men knew what each said of the other, there would not be four...

If all men knew what each said of the other, there would not be four...

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

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

If our condition were truly happy, we would not seek diversion from it in order...

If our condition were truly happy, we would not seek diversion from it in order...

Between us and heaven or hell there is only life, which is the frailest thing...

Between us and heaven or hell there is only life, which is the frailest thing...

Nothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest, without a passion, without...

Nothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest, without a passion, without...

Men are so necessarily mad, that not to be mad would amount to another form...

Men are so necessarily mad, that not to be mad would amount to another form...

We are only falsehood, duplicity, contradiction; we both conceal and disguise ourselves from ourselves.

We are only falsehood, duplicity, contradiction; we both conceal and disguise ourselves from ourselves.