"It is not our task to secure..." - Quote by Blaise Pascal

“To ridicule philosophy is truly philosophical.[Fr., Se moquer de la philosophie c'est vraiment philosophe.]”

“Those great efforts of intellect, upon which the mind sometimes touches, are such that it cannot maintain itself there. It only leaps to them, not as upon a throne, forever, but merely for an instant.”

“Il n'est pas certain que tout soit incertain. (Translation: It is not certain that everything is uncertain.)”

“A man who lies to himself, and believes his own lies, becomes unable to recognize truth, either in himself or in anyone else, and he ends up losing respect for himself and for others.”

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

“A 'No' uttered from the deepest conviction is better than a 'Yes' merely uttered to please, or worse, to avoid trouble.”

“Dammit Sir, it's your duty to get married. You can't always be living for pleasure!”

“Happiness is not everything and men have their duties. Mine is to find my mother, a homeland”

“The physician, to the extent he is a physician, considers only the good of the patient in what he prescribes, and his own not at all”