Pensées — Blaise Pascal

Pensées

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• You will feel the force of the truth, and you will yield to it ... SECTION XIV · ¶2985
• There is something supernatural in such a blindness. _Digna necessitas.[380] Mentiris impudentissime_ ... SECTION XIV · ¶2986
• _Doctrina sua noscitur vir_ ... SECTION XIV · ¶2987
• I am alone against thirty thousand. No. Protect, you, the court; protect, you, deception; let me protect the truth. It is all my strength. If I lose it, I am undone. I shall not lack accusations, and persecutions. But I possess the truth, and we shall see who will take it away. SECTION XIV · ¶2989
• I do not need to defend religion, but you do not need to defend error and injustice. Let God, out of His compassion, having no regard to the evil which is in me, and having regard to the good which is in you, grant us all grace that truth may not be overcome in my hands, and that falsehood ... SECTION XIV · ¶2990
• _Probable._--Let us see if we seek God sincerely, by comparison of the things which we love. It is _probable_ that this food will not poison me. It is _probable_ that I shall not lose my action by not prosecuting it ... SECTION XIV · ¶2992
• It is not absolution only which remits sins by the sacrament of penance, but contrition, which is not real if it does not seek the sacrament. SECTION XIV · ¶2994
• People who do not keep their word, without faith, without honour, without truth, deceitful in heart, deceitful in speech; for which that amphibious animal in fable was once reproached, which held itself in a doubtful position between the fish and the birds ... SECTION XIV · ¶2996
• It is important to kings and princes to be considered pious; and therefore they must confess themselves to you. SECTION XIV · ¶2997
• _Lumine Æon dextro, capta est Leonilla sinistro, Et potis est forma vincere uterque deos. Blande puer, lumen quod habes concede parenti, Sic tu cæcus Amor, sic erit ilia Venus._ SECTION XIV · ¶3015
• _Tales sunt hominum mentes, quali pater ipse Jupiter auctiferas lustravit lampade terras._ SECTION XIV · ¶3064

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