There are some who speak well and write badly. For the place and the audience warm them, and draw from their minds more than they think of without that warmth.Blaise Pascal
As men are not able to fight against death, misery, ignorance, they have taken it into their heads, in order to be happy, not to think of them at all.Blaise Pascal
Man's true nature being lost, everything becomes his nature; as, his true good being lost, everything becomes his good.Blaise Pascal
We are only falsehood, duplicity, contradiction; we both conceal and disguise ourselves from ourselves.Blaise Pascal
We run carelessly to the precipice, after we have put something before us to prevent us seeing it.Blaise Pascal
We conceal it from ourselves in vain - we must always love something. In those matters seemingly removed from love, the feeling is secretly to be found, and man cannot possibly live for a moment without it.Blaise Pascal
If our condition were truly happy, we would not seek diversion from it in order to make ourselves happy.Blaise Pascal
The weather and my mood have little connection. I have my foggy and my fine days within me; my prosperity or misfortune has little to do with the matter.Blaise Pascal
The immortality of the soul is a matter which is of so great consequence to us and which touches us so profoundly that we must have lost all feeling to be indifferent about it.Blaise Pascal
