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Letter "B" » Blaise Pascal Quotes
«How hollow and full of ribaldry is the heart of man!»
«If all persons knew what they said of each other there would not be four friends in the world»
«When we encounter a natural style we are always surprised and delighted, for we thought to see an author and found a man»
Author: Blaise Pascal
(Mathematician, Philosopher, Physicist)
| Keywords:
delighted, encounter, surprised
«When all is equally agitated, nothing appears to be agitated, as in a ship. When all tend to debauchery, none appears to do so. He who stops draws attention to the excess of others, like a fixed point.»
Author: Blaise Pascal
(Mathematician, Philosopher, Physicist)
| Keywords:
agitate, agitated, agitates, agitating, debaucheries, debauchery, draws, fixed point
«Brave deeds are wasted when hidden»
«Even those who write against fame wish for the fame of having written well, and those who read their works desire the fame of having read them.»
«It is not good to be too free. It is not good to have everything one wants.»
«There are truths on this side of the Pyrenees, which are falsehoods on the other.»
«What a strange vanity painting is; it attracts admiration by resembling the original, we do not admire.»
Author: Blaise Pascal
(Mathematician, Philosopher, Physicist)
| Keywords:
admiration, attracts, resembling, vanity
«Some vices only lay hold of us by means of others, and these, like branches, fall on removal of the trunk.»
Author: Blaise Pascal
(Mathematician, Philosopher, Physicist)
| About:
Vice
| Keywords:
branches, removal, trunk, trunks
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