We are not satisfied with real life; we want to live some imaginary life in the eyes of other people and to seem different from what we actually are.
Blaise Pascal Quotes
Imagination disposes of everything; it creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which are everything in this world.
If a soldier or laborer complains of the hardships of his lot, set him to do nothing.
Few men speak humbly of humility, chastely of chastity, skeptically of skepticism.
All human evil comes from a single cause, man’s inability to sit still in a room.
Imagine a number of men in chains, all under sentence of death, some of whom are each day butchered in the sight of the others; those remaining see their own condition in that of their fellows, and looking at each other with grief and despair await their turn. This is an image of the human […]
Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed.
Curiosity is only vanity. Most frequently we wish not to know, but to talk. We would not take a sea voyage for the sole pleasure of seeing without hope of ever telling.
I have discovered that all human evil comes from this, man’s being unable to sit still in a room.
The last thing one discovers in composing a work is what to put first.
