Pride 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 PascalMen seek rest in a struggle against difficulties; and when they have conquered these, rest becomes insufferable.
Blaise PascalMankind suffers from two excesses: to exclude reason, and to live by nothing but reason.
Blaise PascalMuhammad established a religion by putting his enemies to death; Jesus Christ by commanding his followers to lay down their lives.
Blaise Pascal