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«The consciousness of the falsity of present pleasures, and the ignorance of the vanity of absent pleasures, cause inconstancy.»
Author: Blaise Pascal
(Mathematician, Philosopher, Physicist)
| Keywords:
absent, falsities, falsity, inconstancy
«How vain is painting, which is admired for reproducing the likeness of things whose originals are not admired.»
Author: Blaise Pascal
(Mathematician, Philosopher, Physicist)
| About:
Painting
| Keywords:
admired, likeness, originals, reproduced, reproduces, reproducing
«The sum of a man's problems come from his inability to be alone in a silent room.»
Author: Blaise Pascal
(Mathematician, Philosopher, Physicist)
| About:
Problems
| Keywords:
inability
«The property of power is to protect.»
«All the principles of sceptics, stoics, atheists, etc., are true. But their conclusions are false, because the opposite principles are also true.»
Author: Blaise Pascal
(Mathematician, Philosopher, Physicist)
| Keywords:
atheists, conclusions, etc., etc, Sceptics
«And which of you with taking thought can add to his stature one cubit?»
Author: Blaise Pascal
(Mathematician, Philosopher, Physicist)
| Keywords:
add to, cubit, stature, statures
«Instead of complaining that God had hidden Himself, you will give Him thanks for not having revealed so much of Himself; and you will also give Him thanks for not having revealed Himself to haughty sages, unworthy to know so holy a God.»
Author: Blaise Pascal
(Mathematician, Philosopher, Physicist)
| About:
God
| Keywords:
complaining, haughty, revealed, sages, unworthy
«The sensibility of man to trifles, and his insensibility to great things, indicates a strange inversion.»
Author: Blaise Pascal
(Mathematician, Philosopher, Physicist)
| Keywords:
indicated, indicates, insensibility, inversion, sensibilities, sensibility, trifled, trifles
«Justice without force is powerless; force without justice is tyrannical.»
«Law, without force, is impotent.»
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