Anyone who found the secret of rejoicing when things go well without being annoyed when they go badly would have found the point.
Blaise PascalBless yourself with holy water, have Masses said, and so on; by a simple and natural process this will make you believe, and will dull you - will quiet your proudly critical intellect.
Blaise PascalIt is your own assent to yourself, and the constant voice of your own reason, and not of others, that should make you believe.
Blaise PascalSt. Augustine teaches us that there is in each man a Serpent, an Eve, and an Adam. Our senses and natural propensities are the Serpent; the excitable desire is the Eve; and reason is the Adam. Our nature tempts us perpetually; criminal desire is often excited; but sin is not completed till reason consents.
Blaise Pascal