Quote #17

Peu d'amities subsisteraient, si chacun savait ce que son ami dit de lui lorsqu'il n'y est pas. (100)

More from Blaise Pascal

  1. Equality of possessions is no doubt right, but, as men could not make might obey right, they have made right obey might. (299)
  2. For after all what is man in nature? A nothing in relation to infinity, all in relation to nothing, a central point between nothing and all…
  3. Epictetus goes much further when he asks: Why do we not lose our temper if someone tells us that we have a headache, while we do lose it if…
  4. For knowledge of the first principles, like space, time, motion, number, is as solid as any derived through reason, and it is on such knowl…
  5. Curiosite n'est que vanite. Le plus souvent, on ne veut savoir que pour en parler. (152)
  6. Go to confession and communion; you will find it a relief and a strengthening. (82)
  7. Caesar was too old, it seems to me, to go off and amuse himself conquering the world. Such a pastime was all right for Augustus and Alexand…
  8. Dieu est une sphere infinie, dont le centre est partout et la circonference nulle part. (72)

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