Blaise Pascal

A town, a landscape are when seen from afar a town and a landscape; but as one gets nearer, there are houses, trees, tiles leaves, grasses, ants, legs of ants and so on to infinity. All this is subsumed under the name of landscape.

Blaise Pascal

A true friend is so great an advantage, even for the greatest lords, in order that he may speak well of them, and back them in their absence, that they should do all to have one.

Blaise Pascal

Admiration spoils all from infancy.

Blaise Pascal

All human evil comes from a single cause, man’s inability to sit still in a room.

Blaise Pascal

All I know is that I must soon die, but what I know least is this very death which I cannot escape.

Blaise Pascal

All men naturally hate one another. They employ lust as far as possible in the service of the public weal. But this is only a pretence and a false image of love; for at bottom it is only hate.

Blaise Pascal

All of our miseries prove our greatness. They are the miseries of a dethroned monarch.

Blaise Pascal

All that is made perfect by progress perishes also by progress.

Blaise Pascal

Amusement allures and deceives us and leads us down imperceptibly in thoughtlessness to the grave.

Blaise Pascal

Any unity which doesn’t have its origin in the multitudes is tyranny.

Blaise Pascal