"(Man,) the glory and the scandal of..." - Quote by Blaise Pascal

“Cold words freeze people, and hot words scorch them, and bitter words make them bitter, and wrathful words make them wrathful. Kind words also produce their own image on men's souls; and a beautiful image it is. They smooth, and quiet, and comfort the hearer.”

“We are so presumptuous that we wish to be known to all the world, even to those who come after us; and we are so vain that the esteem of five or six persons immediately around us is enough to amuse and satisfy us.”

“No animal admires another animal.”

“The world of men show like a comedy without laughter: populations, interests, government, history; 't is all toy figures in a toyhouse.”

“It is very unhappy, but too late to be helped, the discovery we have made, that we exist”

“Happiness is not the portion of man.”

“I am led to reflect how much more delightful to an undebauched mind is the task of making improvements on the earth, than all the vain glory which can be acquired from ravaging it by the most uninterrupted career of conquests.”

“The sweetness of glory is so great that, join it to what we will, even to death, we love it.”

“I would rather live a short life of glory than a long one of obscurity.”