Quotes by Blaise Pascal

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Men never do evil so thoroughly and cheerfully as when they do it for conscience sake.
Pascal, Blaise

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 belief  

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Can anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of a river and his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have not quarrelled with him?
Pascal, Blaise

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 patriotism  

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Vanity is so secure in the heart of man that everyone wants to be admired: even I who write this, and you who read this.
Pascal, Blaise

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 vanity  

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Rivers are roads which move, and which carry us whither we desire to go.
Pascal, Blaise

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 water  

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The present letter is a very long one, simply because I had no leisure to make it shorter.
Pascal, Blaise

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 brevity  

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All man's troubles come from not knowing how to sit still in one room.
Pascal, Blaise

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 boredom  idleness  

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