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

There are truths on this side of the Pyrénées, which are falsehoods on the other. – Blaise Pascal

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Faith indeed tells what the senses do not tell, but not the contrary of what they see. It is above them and not contrary to them. – Blaise Pascal

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It is not good to be too free. It is not good to have everything one wants. – Blaise Pascal

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Habit is a second nature that destroys the first. But what is nature? Why is habit not natural? I am very much afraid that nature itself is only a first habit, just as habit is a second nature. – Blaise Pascal

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We have them just where they want us. – James T. Kirk

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The bat hanging upside down laughs at the topsy-turvy world. – Japanese Proverb

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It is seldom indeed that one parts on good terms, because if one were on good terms one would not part. – Marcel Proust, The Fugitive, Remembrance of Things Past, 1925

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