Must we kill to prevent there being any wicked? This is to make both parties wicked instead of one.
Blaise PascalWithout [diversion] we would be in a state of weariness, and this weariness would spur us on to seek a more solid means of escaping from it. But diversion amuses us, and leads us unconsciously to death.
Blaise PascalIs it courage in a dying man to go, in weakness and in agony, to affront an almighty and eternal God?
Blaise PascalThere is a certain standard of grace and beauty which consists in a certain relation between our nature, such as it is, weak or strong, and the thing which pleases us. Whatever is formed according to this standard pleases us, be it house, song, discourse, verse, prose, woman, birds, rivers, trees, room, dress, and so on. Whatever is not made according to this standard displeases those who have good taste.
Blaise Pascal