"Chance gives rise to thoughts, and chance..." - Quote by Blaise Pascal

“Who knows if this other half of life where we think we're awake is not another sleep a little different from the first.”

“It is an appalling thing to feel all one possesses drain away.”

“There was once in man a true happiness of which there now remain to him only the mark and empty trace, which he in vain tries to fill from all his surroundings, seeking from things absent the help he does not obtain in things present.”

“To be conscious that we are perceiving or thinking is to be conscious of our own existence.”

“The pleasures arising from thinking and learning will make us think and learn all the more. 1153a 23”

“In the same way as the tree bears the same fruit year after year, but each time new fruit, all lastingly valuable ideas in thinking must always be reborn.”

“Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance. If the dispositions of the parties are ever so well known to each other or ever so similar beforehand, it does not advance their felicity in the least. They always continue to grow sufficiently unlike afterwards to have their share of vexation; and it is better to know as little as possible of the defects of the person with whom you are to pass your life.”

“Though I am not naturally honest, I am sometimes so by chance.”

“Chance is a word void of sense; nothing can exist without a cause.”