Man is defined as a human being and a woman as a female - whenever she behaves as a human being she is said to imitate the male.Simone de Beauvoir
Life is occupied in both perpetuating itself and in surpassing itself; if all it does is maintain itself, then living is only not dying.Simone de Beauvoir
The writer of originality, unless dead, is always shocking, scandalous; novelty disturbs and repels.Simone de Beauvoir
Men often take their imagination for their heart; and they believe they are converted as soon as they think of being converted.Blaise Pascal
Time heals griefs and quarrels, for we change and are no longer the same persons. Neither the offender nor the offended are any more themselves.Blaise Pascal
It is good to be tired and wearied by the futile search after the true good, that we may stretch out our arms to the Redeemer.Blaise Pascal
Man's true nature being lost, everything becomes his nature; as, his true good being lost, everything becomes his good.Blaise Pascal
Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a persons character lies in their own hands.Anne Frank
