Blaise Pascal

We are so unhappy that we cannot be happy without being diverted from thinking about it.

The fact that a man is a Christian does not mean that he is a good man.

It is not good to be too free.

The only way to be happy is to be ignorant.

It is easier to endure death without thinking about it, than to endure the thought of death without dying.

We are so vain that we even care about the opinion of those we despise.

The true morality is to laugh at it.

Man is a creature who lives by faith and not by reason.

The only way to escape the corruptible effect of praise is to go on working.

It is a good thing to be tired of everything.

We are never so happy nor so unhappy as we imagine.

The most eloquent silence is that of the grave.

Man is a thinking reed, but his thoughts are often wrong.

We are so presumptuous that we would like to be known to all the world, even to those who will come after we are gone. And we are so vain that the esteem of five or six people around us is enough to amuse and content us.

Man is full of desires: he is always seeking to be happy, but he is never happy.

The last act is bloody, however fine all the rest of the play. They throw earth over your head, and it is finished forever.

We run carelessly to the precipice, after we have put something in front of us to prevent us from seeing it.

It is the nature of man to love himself and to like himself.

Justice and force must therefore be brought together, so that whatever is just may be strong, and whatever is strong may be just.

The Christian religion, by teaching us to love God, teaches us at the same time to love ourselves, because we are in God.