In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don't.
- Blaise Pascal - In Faith
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There are truths on this side of the Pyranees, which are falsehoods on the other.
- Blaise Pascal - In Nature
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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?
- Blaise Pascal - In Patriotism
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Human beings must be known to be loved; but Divine beings must be loved to be known.
- Blaise Pascal - In Religion
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Thus so wretched is man that he would weary even without any cause for weariness... and so frivolous is he that, though full of a thousand reasons for weariness, the least thing, such as playing billiards or hitting a ball, is sufficient enough to amuse him.
- Blaise Pascal - In Sports
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