Blaise Pascal on Anniversary
1623–1662 France
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Man loves malice, but not against one-eyed men nor the unfortunate, but against the fortunate and proud.
Now, if the passions had no hold on us, a week and a hundred years would amount to the same.
Pensées (1669)
God is surrounded with people full of love who demand of him the benefits of love which are in his power: thus he is properly the king of love.
The heart has its reasons, which Reason does not know. We feel it in a thousand things. It is the heart which feels God, and not Reason. This, then, is perfect faith: God felt in the heart.
As soon as the soul has been made to perceive that a thing can conduct it to that which it loves supremely, it must inevitably embrace it with joy.
Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too; this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and sees distinctly what it loves.
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