Blaise Pascal

Even those who write against fame wish for the fame of having written well, and those who read their works desire the fame of having read them. ”

Do you wish people to think well of you? Don't speak well of yourself. ”

Happiness is neither without us nor within us. It is in God, both without us and within us. ”

Can anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of a river and his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have not quarrelled with him? ”

It is natural for the mind to believe and for the will to love; so that, for want of true objects, they must attach themselves to false. ”

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

It is good to be tired and wearied by the futile search after the true good, that we may stretch out our arms to the Redeemer. ”

Men despise religion. They hate it and are afraid it may be true. ”

The weather and my mood have little connection. I have my foggy and my fine days within me; my prosperity or misfortune has little to do with the matter. ”

We like security: we like the pope to be infallible in matters of faith, and grave doctors to be so in moral questions so that we can feel reassured. ”