"We are not satisfied with real life;..." - Quote by Blaise Pascal

“Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth.”

“Great and small suffer the same mishaps.”

“Necessity, that great refuge and excuse for human frailty, breaks through all law; and he is not to be accounted in fault whose crime is not the effect of choice, but force.”

“The charm of fame is so great that we like every object to which it is attached, even death.”

“Man that is of woman born is apt to be as vain has his mother.”

“We say little, when vanity does not make us speak.”

“Every man bears something within him that, if it were publicly announced, would excite feelings of aversion.”

“Legislators invent too many devices for subdividing property, only taking care to let their subdivisions go hand in hand with the natural affections of the human mind.”

“It is the ignorant and childish part of mankind that is the fighting part. Idle and vacant minds want excitement”