When the passions become masters, they are vices.
Blaise Pascal Quotes
The pagans do not know God, and love only the earth. The Jews know the true God, and love only the earth. The Christians know the true God, and do not love the earth.
We are usually convinced more easily by reasons we have found ourselves than by reasons which have occurred to others.
Force rules the world, and not opinion; but opinion is that which makes use of force.
If you want people to think well of you, do not speak well of yourself.
Caesar was too old, it seems to me, to go off and amuse himself conquering the world. Such a pastime was all right for Augustus and Alexander; they were young men, not easily held in check, but Caesar ought to have been more mature.
It is right that what is just should be obeyed; it is necessary that what is strongest should be obeyed. Justice without might is helpless; might without justice is tyrannical.
It is not only old and early impressions that deceive us; the charms of novelty have the same power.
Man is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness from which he emerges and the infinity in which he is engulfed.
What is man in nature? Nothing in relation to the infinite, all in relation to nothing, a mean between nothing and everything.
