Blaise Pascal

"If all men knew what each said of the other, there would not be four friends left on earth."

"The mind is infinitely divisible, but not the will."

"We are more often treacherous through weakness than through calculation."

"What is the self? A man ordinarily hates himself."

"The suffering of feeling proves the existence of feeling."

"The Almighty does not require that we love our neighbor in order to enter Heaven, only that we do not hate ourselves."

"A man may be as much a fool from the want of sensibility as from the want of sense."

"We cannot bear to have ourselves forgotten, yet we are always willing to forget others."

"Men are so accustomed to a false life that truth appears to them as a paradox."

"The knowledge which we do not have makes us the most curious."

"Those who are accustomed to judge by feeling rather than by reason are stubborn in their opinions."

"To mock philosophy is to be a true philosopher."

"We console ourselves when we remember that the sorrows of others are sometimes greater than our own."

"If you pick up a starving dog and feed him, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between dogs and men."

"The present is the only thing that has no end."

"Man falls because he seeks himself rather than God."

"Being unable to cure death, misery, and ignorance, men have decided, in order to be happy, not to think about such things."

"If only our good works could outweigh our evil ones, all would be well."

"The last thing we discover in writing a book is what to put first."

"Since we cannot change reality, let us change the eyes which see reality."

"We are not satisfied with the life we have; we must imagine another one that we like better."

"The same man, in different times, is not the same man."