I have made this letter longer, because I have not had the time to make it shorter. – Blaise Pascal
Time heals griefs and quarrels, for we change and are no longer the same persons. Neither the offender nor the offended are any more themselves. – Blaise Pascal
I lay it down as a fact that if all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world. – Blaise Pascal
Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary. – Blaise Pascal
In a mans letters you know, Madam, his soul lies naked, his letters are only the mirror of his breast, whatever passes within him is shown undisguised in its natural process. Nothing is inverted, nothing distorted, you see systems in their elements, you discover actions in their motives. – Samuel Johnson