When we see a natural style, we are astonished and charmed; for we expected to see an author, and we find a person. Blaise Pascal Read Quote
We conceal it from ourselves in vain – we must always love something. In those matters seemingly removed from love, the feeling is secretly to be found, and man cannot possibly live for a moment without it. Blaise Pascal Read Quote
I can well conceive a man without hands, feet, head. But I cannot conceive man without thought; he would be a stone or a brute. Blaise Pascal Read Quote
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. Blaise Pascal Read Quote
The consciousness of the falsity of present pleasures, and the ignorance of the vanity of absent pleasures, cause inconstancy. Blaise Pascal Read Quote
Concupiscence and force are the source of all our actions; concupiscence causes voluntary actions, force involuntary ones. Blaise Pascal Read Quote
Man’s true nature being lost, everything becomes his nature; as, his true good being lost, everything becomes his good. Blaise Pascal Read Quote