Civil wars are the greatest of evils. They are inevitable, if we wish to reward merit, for all will say that they are meritorious.
Blaise PascalThe statements of atheists ought to be perfectly clear of doubt. Now it is not perfectly clear that the soul is material.
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 PascalIt is superstitious to put one's hopes in formalities, but arrogant to refuse to submit to them.
Blaise Pascal