I maintain that, if everyone knew what others said about him, there would not be four friends in the world.
Blaise PascalWe view things not only from different sides, but with different eyes; we have no wish to find them alike.
Blaise PascalOn 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 PascalWho can doubt that we exist only to love? Disguise it, in fact, as we will, we love without intermission... We live not a moment exempt from its influence.
Blaise Pascal