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• Imagination disposes of everything; it creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which are everything in this world.

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• Old age is not so bad when you consider the alternatives.

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• Fire. God of Abraham, God of Isaac, God of Jacob, not of the philosophers and scholars. Certainty. Certainty. Feeling. Joy. Peace.

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• Comfort yourself. You would not seek me if you had not found me.

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• Silence is the greatest of all persecutions: no saint was ever silent.

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• I only believe in histories told by witnesses who would have had their throats slit.

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• It is not only impossible, but also useless to recognize God without Jesus.

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• There are only two types of people: the virtuous who believe themselves to be sinners and the sinners who believe themselves to be virtuous.

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• In one word, man knows that he is miserable and therefore he is miserable because he knows it; but he is also worthy, because he knows his condition.

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• Man is neither angel nor beast. Unfortunately, he who wants to act the angel often acts the beast.

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• The most important thing in life is to choose a profession: chance arranges for that.

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• What is man in nature? Nothing in comparison to the infinite, all in comparison to nothing, a mean between nothing and everything.

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• Eloquence should persuade gently, not by force or like a tyrant or king.

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• The more intelligent one is, the greater the differences one finds among men. Ordinary persons do not perceive differences among men.

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• Man is only a reed, the weakest in nature, but he is a thinking reed.

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• All our reasoning comes down to surrendering to feeling.

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• Let us weigh up the gain and loss involved in calling heads that God exists. Let us assess the two cases: if you win you win everything, if you lose you lose nothing. Do not hesitate then; wager that he does exist.

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• The last act is bloody, however fine the rest of the play. They throw earth over your head and it is finished forever.

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• How many kingdoms know nothing of us!

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• The eternal silence of these infinite spaces fills me with dread.

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Birth:	19th June, 1623
Death:	19th August, 1662
Nationality:	French
Profession:	Mathematician, Philosopher, Psychicist, Writer

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