About Blaise Pascal

French mathematician, physicist and religious philosopher who wrote the Pensees. (1623-1662)

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• All the unhappiness of men arises from one single fact, that they cannot stay quietly in their own chamber.Pensees, 139, tr. W. F. Trotter
• Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature; but he is a thinking reed.Pensees, 347, tr. W. F. Trotter
• People are generally better persuaded by the reasons which they have themselves discovered than by those which have come into the mind of others.Pensees, 10, tr. W. F. Trotter
• When we read too fast or too slowly, we understand nothing.Pensees, 69, tr. W. F. Trotter
• The last thing one settles in writing a book is what one should put in first.Pensees, 19, tr. W. F. Trotter
• I would have written a shorter letter, but I did not have the time.Provincial Letters, Letter XVI (1657), loose translation

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• A friend is one soul abiding in two bodies.Aristotle
• When we see men of worth, we should think of equaling them; when we see men of a contrary character, we should turn inwards and examine ourselves.Confucius
• When I walk along with two others, they may serve me as my teachers. I will select their good qualities and follow them, their bad qualities and avoid them.Confucius
• What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others.Confucius
• Associate with those who will make a better man of you. Welcome those whom you yourself can improve. The process is mutual; for men learn while they teach.Seneca
• Whoever gives reverence receives reverence.Rumi

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