Blaise Pascal — "Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature; but he is a thinking reed."

"To be a man is to be an object of scorn to the angels, and of envy to the devils."

"Custom is our nature. He who is accustomed to faith believes in it, and can no longer fear hell, and does not believe in anything else. And he who is accustomed to sin regards it as nothing, and can n…"

"The knowledge of man's misery without God is the knowledge of two things: his misery and his greatness."

"We are all born for love, it is the principle of existence, and its only end."

"We are so presumptuous that we would like to be known by all the world, and even by people who will come after us when we are no more."