On the occasions when I have pondered over men's various activities, the dangers and worries they are exposed to at Court or at war, from which so many quarrels, passions, risky, often ill-conceived actions and so on are born, I have often said that man's unhappiness springs from one thing alone, his incapacity to stay quietly in one room.
Blaise PascalNothing fortifies scepticism more than that there are some who are not sceptics; if all were so, they would be wrong.
Blaise PascalJustice and power must be brought together, so that whatever is just may be powerful, and whatever is powerful may be just.
Blaise Pascal