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Quote by Blaise Pascal
Nothing is as approved as mediocrity, the majority has established

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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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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Nothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest, without a passion, without business, without entertainment, without care. – Blaise Pascal

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