Blaise Pascal

Justice and power must be brought together, so that whatever is just may be powerful, and whatever is powerful may be just. ”

Justice without force is powerless; force without justice is tyrannical. ”

Atheism shows strength of mind, but only to a certain degree. ”

The strength of a man's virtue should not be measured by his special exertions, but by his habitual acts. ”

Few friendships would survive if each one knew what his friend says of him behind his back. ”

Words differently arranged have a different meaning, and meanings differently arranged have different effects. ”

We view things not only from different sides, but with different eyes; we have no wish to find them alike. ”

The consciousness of the falsity of present pleasures, and the ignorance of the vanity of absent pleasures, cause inconstancy. ”

If man made himself the first object of study, he would see how incapable he is of going further. How can a part know the whole? ”

People are generally better persuaded by the reasons which they have themselves discovered than by those which have come in to the mind of others. ”