When we come across a natural style, we are surprised and delighted; for we expected an author, and we
find a man.
Tags: writing-style
Justice, might.—It is right that what is just should be obeyed; it is necessary that what is strongest should be obeyed. Justice without might is helpless; might without justice is tyrannical. Justice without might is gainsaid, because there are always offenders; might without justice is condemned. We must then combine justice and might, and for this end make what is just strong, or what is strong just.
Justice is subject to dispute; might is easily recognised and is not disputed. So we cannot give might to justice, because might has gainsaid justice, and has declared that it is she herself who is just. And thus being unable to make what is just strong, we have made what is strong just.
Jesus Christ is the god whom we approach without pride, and before whom we humble ourselves without despair.
Blaise PascalThe only thing that consoles us for our miseries is diversion. And yet it is the greatest of our miseries. For it is that above all which prevents us thinking about ourselves and leads is imperceptibly to destruction. But for that we should be bored, and boredom would drive us to seek some more solid means of escape, but diversion passes our time and brings us imperceptibly to our death.
Blaise PascalAll human evil comes from a single cause, man’s inability to sit still in a room.
Blaise PascalEvil is never done so thoroughly or so well as when it is done with a good conscience.
Blaise PascalNada nos puede consolar cuando lo pensamos detenidamente.
Blaise PascalWhat a Chimera is man! What a novelty, a monster, a chaos, a contradiction, a prodigy! Judge of all things, an imbecile worm; depository of truth, and sewer of error and doubt; the glory and refuse of the universe.
Blaise PascalTags: mankind
Ultimul lucru pe care-l aflăm când alcătuim o lucrare este cu ce ar fi trebuit să începem.
Blaise PascalKind words produce their images on men's souls.
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