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Quote by Blaise Pascal
Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a th

Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed. – Blaise Pascal

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Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary. – Blaise Pascal

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Chance gives rise to thoughts, and chance removes them no art can keep or acquire them. – Blaise Pascal

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Thus so wretched is man that he would weary even without any cause for weariness… and so frivolous is he that, though full of a thousand reasons for weariness, the least thing, such as playing billiards or hitting a ball, is sufficient enough to amuse him. – Blaise Pascal

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Nature, more of a stepmother than a mother in several ways, has sown a seed of evil in the hearts of mortals, especially in the more thoughtful men, which makes them dissatisfied with their own lot and envious of another s. – Desiderius Erasmus

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Virtue is a habit of the mind, consistent with nature and moderation and reason. – Marcus Tullius Cicero

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My nature just changes. – Jimi Hendrix

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Nature is full of genius, full of the divinity; so that not a snowflake escapes its fashioning hand. – Henry David Thoreau, journal, 1856 January 5th

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Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others. – Buddha

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Will… the threat of common extermination continue?… Must children receive the arms race from us as a necessary inheritance? – Pope John Paul II, speech at the UN, 1979

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Give neither counsel or salt till you are asked for it. – Proverb

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