"Too much and too little wine. Give..." - Quote by Blaise Pascal

“Discourses on humility are a source of pride in the vain and of humility in the humble.”

“Noble deeds that are concealed are most esteemed.”

“The end point of rationality is to demonstrate the limits of rationality.”

“A man must take the fat with the lean.”

“I am part of the load not rightly balanced . . .”

“What the essential difference between man and woman is, that they should be thus attracted to one another, no one has satisfactorily answered. Perhaps we must acknowledge the justness of the distinction which assigns to man the sphere of wisdom, and to woman that of love, though neither belongs exclusively to either. Man is continually saying to woman, Why will you not be more wise? Woman is continually saying to man, Why will you not be more loving? It is not in their wills to be wise or to be loving; but, unless each is both wise and loving, there can be neither wisdom nor love.”

“You won't find reasonable men on the tops of tall mountains.”

“Our senses perceive no extreme. Too much sound deafens us; too much light dazzles us; too great distance or proximity hinders ourview. Too great length and too great brevity of discourse tends to obscurity; too much truth is paralyzing.... In short, extremes are for us as though they were not, and we are not within their notice. They escape us, or we them.”

“There is no vice which mankind carries to such wild extremes as that of avarice.”