It is not good to be too free. It is not good to have everything one wants. – Blaise Pascal
The finite is annihilated in the presence of the infinite, and becomes a pure nothing. So our spirit before God, so our justice before divine justice. – Blaise Pascal
Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction. – Blaise Pascal
The greater intellect one has, the more originality one finds in men. Ordinary persons find no difference between men. – Blaise Pascal
Luckless is the country in which the symbols of procreation are the objects of shame, while the agents of destruction are honored! And yet you call that member your pudendum, or shameful part, as if there were anything more glorious than creating life, or anything more atrocious than taking it away. – Savinien Cyrano De Bergerac