There are vices which have no hold upon us, but in connection with others; and which, when you cut down the trunk, fall like the branches.
Blaise PascalThe present is never the mark of our designs. We use both past and present as our means and instruments, but the future only as our object and aim.
Blaise PascalPride counterbalances all our miseries, for it either hides them, or, if it discloses them, boasts of that disclosure. Pride has such a thorough possession of us, even in the midst of our miseries and faults, that we are prepared to sacrifice life with joy, if it may but be talked of.
Blaise Pascal