Blaise Pascal

"All the miseries of mankind come from one thing, not knowing how to remain alone. "

"Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and sees distinctly what it loves. "

"Eloquence is a painting of the thoughts. "

"Fear not, provided you fear but if you fear not, then fear. "

"Few friendships would survive if each one knew what his friend says of him behind his back. "

"I have discovered that all human evil comes from this, man's being unable to sit still in a room. "

"I have made this letter longer, because I have not had the time to make it shorter. "

"If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world. "

"It is not good to be too free. It is not good to have everything one wants. "

"It is the fight alone that pleases us, not the victory. "

"Let us weigh the gain and the loss in wagering that God is, but let us consider the two possibilities. If you gain, you gain all if you lose you lose nothing. Hesitate not, then, to wager that He is. "

"Man is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness from which he emerges and the infinity in which he is engulfed. "

"Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from a religious conviction. "

"Nature has perfection, in order to show that she is the image of God and defects, to show that she is only his image. "

"One must know oneself, if this does not serve to discover truth, it at least serves as a rule of life and there is nothing better. "

"Our heart has its reasons that reason cannot know. "

"Since we cannot know all that there is to be known about anything, we ought to know a little about everything. "

"The eternal silence of these infinite spaces fills me with dread. "

"The heart has arguments with which the logic of mind is not aquainted. "

"The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of. "

"The sensibility of man to trifles, and his insensibility to great things, indicates a strange inversion. "

"We are generally the better persuaded by the reasons we discover ourselves than by those given to us by others. "

"We arrive at the truth, not by the reason only, but also by the heart. "

"We must learn our limits. We are all something, but none of us are everything. "