Top 500 Blaise Pascal Quotes (2025 Update)
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351. “Ugly deeds are most estimable when hidden.”

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352. “The eternal Being is forever if he is at all.”

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353. “Nature has made all her truths independent of one another. Our art makes one dependent on the other. But this is not natural. Each keeps its own place.”

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354. “If men knew themselves, God would heal and pardon them.”

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355. “Civil wars are the greatest of evils. They are inevitable, if we wish to reward merit, for all will say that they are meritorious.”

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356. “It is not possible to have reasonable grounds for not believing in miracles.”

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357. “It is good to be tired and wearied by the futile search after the true good, that we may stretch out our arms to the Redeemer.”

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358. “Earnestness is enthusiasm tempered by reason.”

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359. “Is it courage in a dying man to go, in weakness and in agony, to affront an almighty and eternal God?”

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360. “It is the contest that delights us, and not the victory.”

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361. “Those we call the ancients were really new in everything.”

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362. “Extremes are for us as if they were not, and as if we were not in regard to them; they escape from us, or we from them.”

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363. “What sort of freak then is man! How novel, how monstrous, how chaotic, how paradoxical, how prodigious! Judge of all things, feeble earthworm, repository of truth, sink of doubt and error, glory and refuse of the universe!”

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364. “Thus passes away all man’s life. Men seek rest in a struggle against difficulties; and when they have conquered these, rest becomes insufferable. For we think either of the misfortunes we have or of those which threaten us.”

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365. “All men have happiness as their object: there is no exception. However different the means they employ, they all aim at the same end.”

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366. “Cleopatra’s nose, had it been shorter, the whole face of the world would have been changed.”

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367. “If man is not made for God, why is he only happy in God? If man is made for God, why is he so opposed to God?”

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368. “And is it not obvious that, just as it is a crime to disturb the peace when truth reigns, it is also a crime to remain at peace when the truth is being destroyed?”

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369. “We make an idol of truth itself, for truth apart from charity is not God, but his image and an idol that we must not love or worship.”

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370. “Condition de l’homme: inconstance, ennui, inquie tude. Man’s condition. Inconstancy, boredom, anxiety.”

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371. “It is not certain that everything is uncertain.”

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372. “Justice is subject to dispute; might is easily recognized and is not disputed. So we cannot give might to justice.”

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373. “The only thing which consoles for our miseries is diversion, and yet this is the greatest of our miseries. For it is this which principally hinders us from reflecting upon ourselves and which makes us imperceptibly ruin ourselves.”

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374. “La vraie e loquence se moque de l’e loquence, la vraie morale se moque de la morale. True eloquence has notime foreloquence, true morality has no time for morality.”

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375. “Man’s greatness comes from knowing he is wretched.”

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376. “The arithmetical machine produces effects that approach nearer to thought than all the actions of animals. But it does nothing that would enable us to attribute will to it, as to the animals.”

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377. “Nothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest, without a passion, without business, without entertainment, without care.”

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378. “All of our miseries prove our greatness. They are the miseries of a dethroned monarch.”

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379. “Jesus Christ came to tell men that they have no enemies but themselves.”

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380. “We conceal it from ourselves in vain – we must always love something. In those matters seemingly removed from love, the feeling is secretly to be found, and man cannot possibly live for a moment without it.”

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381. “All this visible world is but an imperceptible point in the ample bosom of nature.”

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382. “To make a man a saint, it must indeed be by grace; and whoever doubts this does not know what a saint is, or a man.”

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383. “What part of us feels pleasure? Is it our hand, our arm, our flesh, or our blood? It must obviously be something immaterial.”

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384. “A jester, a bad character.”

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385. “Caesar was too old, it seems to me, to go off and amuse himself conquering the world. Such a pastime was all right for Augustus and Alexander; they were young men, not easily held in check, but Caesar ought to have been more mature.”

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386. “Death is easier to bear without thinking of it, than the thought of death without peril.”

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387. “We never love a person, but only qualities.”

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388. “Man is clearly made to think. It is his whole dignity and his whole merit; and his whole duty is to think as he ought. And the order of thought is to begin with ourselves, and with our Author and our end.”

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389. “Men seek rest in a struggle against difficulties; and when they have conquered these, rest becomes insufferable.”

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390. “It is natural for the mind to believe and for the will to love; so that, for want of true objects, they must attach themselves to false.”

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391. “Things have different qualities, and the soul different inclinations; for nothing is simple which is presented to the soul, and the soul never presents itself simply to any object. Hence it comes that we weep and laugh at the same thing.”

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392. “I condemn equally those who choose to praise man, those who choose to condemn him and those who choose to divert themselves, and I can only approve of those who seek with groans.”

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393. “All the miseries of mankind come from one thing, not knowing how to remain alone.”

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394. “That something so obvious as the vanity of the world should be so little recognized that people find it odd and surprising to be told that it is foolish to seek greatness; that is most remarkable.”

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395. “Men spend their time in following a ball or a hare; it is the pleasure even of kings.”

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396. “The weakness of human reason appears more evidently in those who know it not than in those who know it.”

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397. “The consciousness of the falsity of present pleasures, and the ignorance of the vanity of absent pleasures, cause inconstancy.”

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398. “Nature confuses the skeptics and reason confutes the dogmatists.”

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399. “Too much pleasure disagrees with us. Too many concords are annoying in music; too many benefits irritate us; we wish to have the wherewithal to overpay our debts.”

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400. “Thinking too little about things or thinking too much both make us obstinate and fanatical.”

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