Human life is thus only an endless illusion. Men deceive and flatter each other. No one speaks of us in our presence as he does when we are gone. Society is based on mutual hypocrisy.
Blaise PascalThe art of revolutionizing and overturning states is to undermine established customs, by going back to their origin, in order to mark their want of justice.
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 Pascal