"All who say the same things do..." - Quote by Blaise Pascal

“Notre nature est dans le mouvement; le repos entier est la mort. Our nature consists in movement; absolute rest is death.”

“Rivers are roads which move, and which carry us whither we desire to go.”

“Desire and force between them are responsible for all our actions; desire causes our voluntary acts, force our involuntary.”

“Confidence contributes more to conversation than wit.”

“The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them.”

“Nothing is so easy as to deceive one’s self when one does not lack wit and is familiar with all the niceties of language. Language is a prostitute queen who descends and rises to all roles. Disguises herself, arrays herself in fine apparel, hides her head and effaces herself; an advocate who has an answer for everything, who has always foreseen everything, and who assumes a thousand forms in order to be right. The most honorable of men is he who thinks best and acts best, but the most powerful is he who is best able to talk and write”

“The right question is usually more important than the right answer.”

“Society always consists, in greatest part, of young and foolish persons. The old, who have seen through the hypocrisy of the courts and statesmen, die, and leave no wisdom to their sons. They believe their own newspaper, as their fathers did at their age.”

“For the man who makes everything that leads to happiness, or near to it, to depend upon himself, and not upon other men, on whose good or evil actions his own doings are compelled to hinge,--such a one, I say, has adopted the very best plan for living happily. This is the man of moderation; this is the man of manly character and of wisdom.”