The Stoics say, "Retire within yourselves; it is there you will find your rest." And that is not true. Others say, "Go out of yourselves; seek happiness in amusement." And this is not true. Illness comes. Happiness is neither without us nor within us. It is in God, both without us and within us.
Blaise PascalBeauty is a harmonious relation between something in our nature and the quality of the object which delights us.
Blaise PascalIt is the conduct of God, who disposes all things kindly, to put religion into the mind by reason, and into the heart by grace.
Blaise PascalWe need not have the loftiest mind to understand that here is no lasting and real satisfaction, that our pleasures are only vanity, that our evils are infinite, and, lastly, that death, which threatens us every moment, must infallibly place us within a few years under the dreadful necessity of being forever either annihilated or unhappy.
Blaise Pascal