"Man is obviously made for thinking. Therein..." - Quote by Blaise Pascal

“Man is so great that his greatness appears even in the consciousness of his misery. A tree does not know itself to be miserable. It is true that it is misery indeed to know one's self to be miserable; but then it is greatness also. In this way, all man's miseries go to prove his greatness. They are the miseries of a mighty potentate, of a dethroned monarch.”

“Mutual cheating is the foundation of society.”

“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.”

“What is the hardest task in the world? To think.”

“The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.”

“Forbid a man to think for himself or to act for himself and you may add the joy of piracy and the zest of smuggling to his life.”

“Most people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, in a very restricted circle of their potential being.”

“Wars and revolutions and battles are due simply and solely to the body and its desires.”

“It is said that when manners are licentious, a revolution is always near: the virtue of woman being the main girth and bandage ofsociety; because a man will not lay up an estate for children any longer than whilst he believes them to be his own.”