Happiness is neither without us nor within us. It is in God, both without us and within us.
Blaise Pascal
The charm of fame is so great that we like every object to which it is attached, even death.
Blaise Pascal
Man is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness from which he emerges and the infinity in which he is engulfed
Blaise Pascal
Reason is the slow and torturous method by which those who do not know the truth discover it.
Blaise Pascal
The immortality of the soul is a matter which is of so great consequence to us and which touches us so profoundly that we must have lost all feeling to be indifferent about it.
Blaise Pascal
Justice is what is established; and thus all our established laws will necessarily be regarded as just without examination, since they are established.
Blaise Pascal
Curiosity is only vanity. Most frequently we wish not to know, but to talk. We would not take a sea voyage for the sole pleasure of seeing without hope of ever telling.
Blaise Pascal
The power of a man's virtue should not be measured by his special efforts, but by his ordinary doing
Blaise Pascal