All man's miseries derive from not being able to sit quietly in a room alone
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The best quotes by Blaise Pascal
Man is neither angel nor beast, and the unfortunate thing is that he who would play the angel plays the beast.
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Death is easier to bear without thinking of it, than the thought of death without peril.
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Posted by: Mauro Lanari
There is almost nothing right or wrong which does not alter with a change in clime. A shift of three degrees of latitude is enough to overthrow jurisprudence. One's location on the meridin decides the truth, that or a change in territorial possession. Fundamental laws alter. What is right changes with the times. Strange jutice that is bounded by a river or mountain! The truth on this side of the Pyrenees, error on the other.
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Posted by: Emanuela D'Erchia
in Quotes & Aphorisms (Habit)
Qualities of mind are not acquired by habit; they are only perfected.
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Posted by: Stefano Gandolfi
As men are not able to fight against death, misery, ignorance, they have taken it into their heads, in order to be happy, not to think of them at all.
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Posted by: Andrea Manfrč
in Quotes & Aphorisms (Love)
In love, silence is of more avail than speech.
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Posted by: Nike Valentine Rose
in Quotes & Aphorisms (Desire)
So great is the sweetness of glory, that one loves whatever things it is attached to, even death.
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The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of.
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Posted by: Alessio Benedetti
If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world.
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