Blaise Pascal

"Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary."

"The greatest pleasures are only narrowly separated from disgust."

"One must know oneself. If this does not serve to discover truth, it at least serves as a rule of life."

"Charity is the greatest of the virtues."

"I would rather have a man love me less than deceive me under the guise of love."

"Nature is a perfect poem written by God."

"Patience is harder to bear than suffering."

"We know the truth not only by reason but also by the heart."

"The more you love something, the more it hurts when it is taken away."

"Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life."

"Eloquence is a painting of thought."

"It is the fight alone that pleases us, not the victory."

"The world is at odds with itself."

"The only true science is the science of God."

"Custom is a second nature that destroys the first."

"There are only three types of people: those who seek God, those who do not seek but have found, and those who neither seek nor have found."

"Distance does not matter in love."

"The serene beauty of a mad woman."

"Virtue is its own reward."

"It is the heart which perceives God and not the reason."

"What men are prisoners of habit become masters of destiny."

"There is something implanted in our hearts which our reason contradicts."

"To understand is to forgive."

"The remedy for boredom is curiosity. There is no remedy for curiosity but more curiosity."

"All of our reasoning ends in surrender to feeling."

"The strength of your desire shall be the measure of your success."

"Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones."

"Glory is nothing but the approbation of worthy men."

"The worst evil is that evil wears the guise of good."

"Waiting is unbearable when hope supplies no relief."