959 Quotes by Blaise Pascal

Nothing is surer than that the people will be weak.

Do you wish people to speak well of you? Then do not speak at all yourself. [Fr., Voulez-vous qu'on croie du bien de vous? N'en dites point.]

Too much pleasure disagrees with us. Too many concords are annoying in music; too many benefits irritate us; we wish to have the wherewithal to overpay our debts.

All men naturally hate each other. We have used concupiscence as best we can to make it serve the common good, but this is mere sham and a false image of charity, for essentially it is just hate.

Mankind suffers from two excesses: to exclude reason, and to live by nothing but reason.

There are two kinds of people one can call reasonable: those who serve God with all their heart because they know him, and those who seek him with all their heart because they do not know him.

We know the truth, not only be the reason, but also be the heart.

All this visible world is but an imperceptible point in the ample bosom of nature.

Orthodoxy on one side of the Pyrenees may be heresy on the other.