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Quote by Blaise Pascal
There are truths on this side of the Pyrénées, which are fal

There are truths on this side of the Pyr̩n̩es, which are falsehoods on the other. РBlaise Pascal

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Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary. – 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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No object is mysterious. The mystery is your eye. – Elizabeth Bowen, The House in Paris, 1935

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Necessity is not an established fact, but an interpretation. – Friedrich Nietzsche

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