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If you gain, you gain all. If you lose, you lose nothing. Wager then, without hesitation, that He exists.

~Blaise Pascal

Topics: Exists Gain He Hesitation Lose Nothing Then Without You

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The greatness of man is great in that he knows himself to be wretched. A tree does not know itself to be wretched.

~Blaise Pascal

Topics: Does Great Greatness He Himself Itself Know Knows Man Tree Wretched

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The greater intellect one has, the more originality one finds in men. Ordinary persons find no difference between men.

~Blaise Pascal

Topics: Between Difference Find Finds Greater Intellect Men More No Difference Ordinary Originality Persons

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A trifle consoles us, for a trifle distresses us.

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Topics: Trifle Us

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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

Topics: Connection Days Fine Foggy Little Matter Me Misfortune Mood Prosperity Weather Within

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Custom is our nature. What are our natural principles but principles of custom?

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Topics: Custom Natural Nature Our Principles

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Our soul is cast into a body, where it finds number, time, dimension. Thereupon it reasons, and calls this nature necessity, and can believe nothing else.

~Blaise Pascal

Topics: Believe Body Calls Cast Dimension Else Finds Nature Necessity Nothing Number Our Reasons Soul Time Where

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The consciousness of the falsity of present pleasures, and the ignorance of the vanity of absent pleasures, cause inconstancy.

~Blaise Pascal

Topics: Absent Cause Consciousness Ignorance Pleasures Present Vanity

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Since we cannot know all that there is to be known about anything, we ought to know a little about everything.

~Blaise Pascal

Topics: About Anything Cannot Everything Know Known Little Ought Since We Cannot

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The struggle alone pleases us, not the victory.

~Blaise Pascal

Topics: Alone Pleases Struggle Us Victory

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Biography

Nationality: French

Type: Philosopher

Born: June 19th, 1623

Died: August 19th, 1662

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