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We only consult the ear because the heart is wanting.

Too much and too little wine. Give him none, he cannot find truth; give him too much, the same.

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.

Blaise Pascal

Fools

Reason

People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found by others.

Blaise Pascal

People

Nature is an infinite sphere of which the center is everywhere and the circumference nowhere.

Blaise Pascal

Nature

Infinite

Nothing fortifies scepticism more than the fact that there are some who are not sceptics; if all were so, they would be wrong.

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

Nothing gives rest but the sincere search for truth.

That we must love one God only is a thing so evident that it does not require miracles to prove it.

Nothing is as approved as mediocrity, the majority has established it and it fixes it fangs on whatever gets beyond it either way.

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

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 nature consists in motion; complete rest is death.

Our soul is cast into a body, where it finds number, time, dimension. Thereupon it reasons, and calls this nature necessity, and can believe nothing else.

People are generally better persuaded by the reasons which they have themselves discovered than by those which have come in to the mind of others.

Blaise Pascal

People

Mind