Quote #8
Tout notre raisonnement se reduit a ceder au sentiment. (274)
More from Blaise Pascal
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- An advocate who has been well paid in advance will find the cause he is pleading all the more just. (82)
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- Anyone who found the secret of rejoicing when things go well without being annoyed when they go badly would have found the point. (181)
- L'homme n'est ni ange ni bete, et le malheur veut que qui veut faire l'ange fait la bete.
- Bless yourself with holy water, have Masses said, and so on; by a simple and natural process this will make you believe, and will dull you …