Quote by Blaise Pascal
Little things console us because little things afflict us. - Blais

Little things console us because little things afflict us. – Blaise Pascal

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We like security: we like the pope to be infallible in matters of faith, and grave doctors to be so in moral questions so that we can feel reassured. – Blaise Pascal

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Justice and truth are too such subtle points that our tools are too blunt to touch them accurately. – Blaise Pascal

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The age is a vociferous one, and no prophet is without honor who is able to strike an attitude and to speak loud enough to make himself heard. – Ellen Glasgow

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Every nation ridicules other nations, and all are right. – Arthur Schopenhauer

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We talk much more about individualism and liberty than our ancestors. But as so often happens, when anything becomes conscious, the consciousness is compensatory for absence in practice. – John Dewey

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It is one of the commonest of mistakes to consider that the limit of our power of perception is also the limit of all there is to perceive. – C.W. Leadbeater

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We must all die. But that I can save him from days of torture, that is what I feel as my great and ever new privelege. Pain is a more terrible lord of mankind than even death himself. – Albert Schweitzer

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If he works for you, you work for him. – Japanese Proverb

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I have never found, in a long experience of politics, that criticism is ever inhibited by ignorance. – Harold MacMillan

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The central task of science is to arrive, stage by stage, at a clearer comprehension of nature, but this does not at all mean, as it is sometimes claimed to mean, a search for mastery over nature. – Lewis Thomas

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