The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of... We know the truth not only by the reason, but by the heart." - Blaise Pascal

An advocate who has been well paid in advance will find the cause he is pleading all the more just.

(Man,) the glory and the scandal of the universe.

Our senses perceive no extreme. Too much sound deafens us; too much light dazzles us; too great distance or proximity hinders ourview. Too great length and too great brevity of discourse tends to obscurity; too much truth is paralyzing.... In short, extremes are for us as though they were not, and we are not within their notice. They escape us, or we them.

The sensitivity of men to small matters, and their indifference to great ones, indicates a strange inversion.

We should seek the truth without hesitation; and, if we refuse it, we show that we value the esteem of men more than the search for truth.

Concupiscence and force are the source of all our actions; concupiscence causes voluntary actions, force involuntary ones.