01c. 1642 ADToo much noise deafens us; too much light blinds us; too great a distance or too much of proximity equally prevents us from being able to see; too long and too short a discourse obscures our knowledge of a subject; too much of truth stuns us.Blaise Pascal / quote ↗
02c. 1642 ADExtremes are for us as if they were not, and as if we were not in regard to them; they escape from us, or we from them.Blaise Pascal / quote ↗
03c. 1642 ADKind words produce their own image in men's souls; and a beautiful image it is. They soothe and quiet and comfort the hearer. They shame him out of his sour, morose, unkind feelings. We have not yet begun to use kind words in such abundance as they ought to be used.Blaise Pascal / quote ↗
06c. 1642 ADIt is of dangerous consequence to represent to man how near he is to the level of beasts, without showing him at the same time his greatness. It is likewise dangerous to let him see his greatness without his meanness. It is more dangerous yet to leave him ignorant of either; but very beneficial that he should be made sensible of both.Blaise Pascal / quote ↗
07c. 1642 ADNature imitates herself. A grain thrown into good ground brings forth fruit: a principle thrown into a good mind brings forth fruit. Everything is created and conducted by the same Master,—the root, the branch, the fruits,—the principles, the consequences.Blaise Pascal / quote ↗
