16 Blaise Pascal Quotes on Ethics

Blaise Pascal quotes on ethics

4. L'homme n'est ni ange ni bete, et le malheur veut que qui veut faire l'ange fait la bete.

10. An advocate who has been well paid in advance will find the cause he is pleading all the more just. (82)

16. Equality of possessions is no doubt right, but, as men could not make might obey right, they have made right obey might. (299)

22. How hollow is the heart of man, and how full of excrement! (143)

28. It is a funny sort of justice whose limits are marked by a river; true on this side of the Pyrenees, false on the other. (294)

31. Il n'est pas honteux pour l'homme de succomber sous la douleur et il est honteux de succomber sous le plaisir. (160)

34. Make religion attractive, make good men wish it were true, and then show that it is. Worthy of reverence because it really understands human nature. Attractive because it promises true good. (187)

41. One must have deeper motives and judge everything accordingly, but go on talking like an ordinary person. (336)

45. Le silence est la plus grande persecution; jamais les saints ne se sont tus. (919)

48. The fairest man in the world is not allowed to be judge in his own cause.

53. There no doubt exist natural laws, but once this fine reason of ours was corrupted, it corrupted everything.

59. La vraie morale se moque de la morale.

68. Why are you killing me for your own benefit? I am unarmed.' 'Why, do you not live on the other side of the water? My friend, if you lived on this side, I should be a murderer, but since you live on the other side, I am a brave man and it is right.'

71. Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.

74. Justice without force is powerless; force without justice is tyrannical.

75. Ne pouvant fortifier la justice, on a justifie la force.