Blaise Pascal

The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble.

Blaise Pascal

The married should not forget that to speak of love begets love.

Blaise Pascal

The mind must not be forced; artificial and constrained manners fill it with foolish presumption, through unnatural elevation and vain and ridiculous inflation, instead of solid and vigorous nutriment.

Blaise Pascal

The more I see of Mankind, the more I prefer my dog.

Blaise Pascal

The more intelligence one has, the more people one finds original. Commonplace people see no difference between men.

Blaise Pascal

The power of a man’s virtue should not be measured by his special efforts, but by his ordinary doing.

Blaise Pascal

The present letter is a very long one, simply because I had no leisure to make it shorter.

Blaise Pascal

The sensitivity of men to small matters, and their indifference to great ones, indicates a strange inversion.

Blaise Pascal

The supreme function of reason is to show man that some things are beyond reason.

Blaise Pascal

The sweetness of glory is so great that, join it to what we will, even to death, we love it.

Blaise Pascal