"The only shame is to have none...." - Quote by Blaise Pascal

“Nothing is so insufferable to man as to be completely at rest, without passions, without business, without diversion, without study. He then feels his nothingness, his forlornness, his insufficiency, his dependence, his weakness, his emptiness. There will immediately arise from the depth of his heart weariness, gloom, sadness, fretfulness, vexation, despair.”

“All mankind's unhappiness derives from one thing: his inability to know how to remain in repose in one room.”

“Force and not opinion is the queen of the world; but it is opinion that uses the force.[Fr., La force est la reine du monde, et non pas l'opinion; mais l'opinion est celle qui use de la force.]”

“Be not thy tongue thy own shame's orator.”

“We should often feel ashamed of our best actions if the world could see all the motives which produced them.”

“England is perhaps the only great country whose intellectuals are ashamed of their own nationality.”

“All war must be just the killing of strangers against whom you feel no personal animosity; strangers whom, in other circumstances, you would help if you found them in trouble, and who would help you if you needed it.”

“You say a good cause justifies any war; but I say a good war justifies any cause.”

“Law never made men a whit more just.”