Blaise Pascal

If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world.

No soul of high estate can take pleasure in slander. It betrays a weakness.

He that takes truth for his guide, and duty for his end, may safely trust to God's providence to lead him aright.

All men have happiness as their object: there is no exception. However different the means they employ, they all aim at the same end.

The heart has its reasons, whereof reason knows nothing. (La coeur a ses raisons que la raison ne connait point)

The heart has reasons which the reason cannot understand.

It is the fight alone that pleases us, not the victory.

The excitement that a gambler feels when making a bet is equal to the amount he might win times the probability of winning it.

Early things must be known to be loved: divine things must be loved to be known.

All err the more dangerously because each follows a truth. Their mistake lies not in following a falsehood but in not following another truth.