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Quote by Blaise Pascal
Habit is a second nature that destroys the first. But what is natu

Habit is a second nature that destroys the first. But what is nature? Why is habit not natural? I am very much afraid that nature itself is only a first habit, just as habit is a second nature. – Blaise Pascal

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Men are so necessarily mad, that not to be mad would amount to another form of madness. – Blaise Pascal

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Belief is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved, what harm will come to you if you gamble on its truth and it proves false? If you gain, you gain all if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists. – Blaise Pascal

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Nature reserves the right to inflict upon her children the most terrifying jests. – Thornton Wilder

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