In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don't.Blaise Pascal
Continuous eloquence wearies. Grandeur must be abandoned to be appreciated. Continuity in everything is unpleasant. Cold is agreeable, that we may get warm.Blaise Pascal
Concupiscence and force are the source of all our actions; concupiscence causes voluntary actions, force involuntary ones.Blaise Pascal
Desire and force between them are responsible for all our actions; desire causes our voluntary acts, force our involuntary.Blaise Pascal
Jesus is the God whom we can approach without pride and before whom we can humble ourselves without despair.Blaise Pascal
Nothing is as approved as mediocrity, the majority has established it and it fixes its fangs on whatever gets beyond it either way.Blaise Pascal
We run carelessly to the precipice, after we have put something before us to prevent us seeing it.Blaise Pascal
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