Blaise Pascal

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"[On vanity:] The nose of Cleopatra: if it had been shorter, the face of the earth would have changed."	Beauty
"Of course the heart has it reasons, of which reason knows nothing."	Love
"In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don't."	Faith
"To ridicule philosophy is really to philosophize."	Philosophy
"Little things console us because little things afflict us."	Miscellaneous
"Can anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of a river and his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have not quarrelled with him?"	Patriotism
"Of course the heart has it reasons, of which reason knows nothing."	Friendship, Dreams
"I do not admire a virtue like valour when it is pushed to excess, if I do not see at the same time the excess of the opposite virtue, as one does in Epaminondas, who displayed extreme valour and extreme benevolence. For otherwise it is not an ascent, but a fall. We do not display our greatness by placing ourselves at one extremity, but rather by being at both at the same time, and filling up the whole of the space between them."	Comedy, Greatness
"Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too; this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and sees distinctly what it loves."	Love
"There are truths on this side of the Pyranees, which are falsehoods on the other."	Quotations
"Little things console us because little things afflict us."	Quotations

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