"We like to be deceived...." - Quote by Blaise Pascal

“Human life is thus only an endless illusion. Men deceive and flatter each other. No one speaks of us in our presence as he does when we are gone. Society is based on mutual hypocrisy.”

“We sail within a vast sphere, ever drifting in uncertainty, driven from end to end.”

“What is it, in your opinion, to be a great nobleman? It is to be master of several objects that men covet, and thus to be able to satisfy the wants and the desires of many. It is thesewants and these desires that attract them towards you, and that make them submit to you: were it not for these, they would not even look at you; but they hope, by these services... to obtainfrom you some part of the good which they desire, and of which they see that you have the disposal.”

“Don't let them tell us stories.”

“That affable familiar ghost Which nightly gulls him with intelligence.”

“You undergo too strict a paradox, Striving to make an ugly deed look fair.”

“A man of truth must ever be confident, if he has also equal need to be diffident.”

“Live in the opening wherethere is no door to hide behind.”

“The life of an animal is misery and slavery: that is the plain truth.”