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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Nothing is as approved as mediocrity, the majority has established it and it fixes it fangs on whatever gets beyond it either way. – Blaise Pascal

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Custom is our nature. What are our natural principles but principles of custom? – Blaise Pascal

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If we must not act save on a certainty, we ought not to act on religion, for it is not certain. But how many things we do on an uncertainty, sea voyages, battles! – Blaise Pascal

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Nature is neutral. – Adlai E. Stevenson

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People must help one another it is natures law. – Jean de La Fontaine

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Nature never deceives us it is we who deceive ourselves. – Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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