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Man is but a reed, the weakest in nature, but he is a thinking reed.

Man is but a reed, the weakest in nature, but he is a thinking reed.
– Blaise Pascal

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  1. There is a certain standard of grace and beauty which consists in a certain relation between our nature… and the thing which pleases us. – Blaise Pascal
  2. Nature has made all her truths independent of one another. Our art makes one dependent on the other. – Blaise Pascal
  3. Those honor nature well, who teach that she can speak on everything. – Blaise Pascal
  4. Our intellect holds the same position in the world of thought as our body occupies in the expanse of nature. – Blaise Pascal
  5. All of humanity’s problems stem from man’s inability to sit quietly in a room alone. – Blaise Pascal
  6. If man studied himself, he would see how incapable he is of going further. – Blaise Pascal
  7. Men spend their time in following a ball or a hare it is the pleasure even of kings. – Blaise Pascal
  8. Few friendships would survive if each one knew what his friend says of him behind his back – Blaise Pascal
  9. When we read too fast or too slowly, we understand nothing. – Blaise Pascal
  10. I would prefer an intelligent hell to a stupid paradise. – Blaise Pascal
  11. Lust is the source of all our actions, and humanity. – Blaise Pascal
  12. The last thing we discover in composing a work is what to put down first. – Blaise Pascal
  13. If we examine our thoughts, we shall find them always occupied with the past and the future. – Blaise Pascal
  14. God instituted prayer to communicate to creatures the dignity of causality. – Blaise Pascal
  15. Men are so inevitably mad that not to be mad would be to give a mad twist to madness. – Blaise Pascal
  16. Kind words produce their images on men’s souls. – Blaise Pascal
  17. Even those who write against fame wish for the fame of having written well, and those who read their works desire the fame of having read them. – Blaise Pascal
  18. Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction. – Blaise Pascal
  19. Few men speak humbly of humility, chastely of chastity, skeptically of skepticism. – Blaise Pascal
  20. Curiosity is only vanity. We usually only want to know something so that we can talk about it. – Blaise Pascal
  21. People are generally better persuaded by the reasons which they have themselves discovered than by those which have come into the mind of others. – Blaise Pascal
  22. Eloquence is painted thought, and thus those who, after having painted it, add somewhat more, make a picture, not a portrait. – Blaise Pascal
  23. The last thing one knows when writing a book is what to put first. – Blaise Pascal
  24. All men’s miseries derive from not being able to sit quiet in a room alone. – Blaise Pascal
  25. Eloquence.-” We need both what is pleasing and what is real, but that which pleases must itself be drawn from the true. – Blaise Pascal
  26. Men are more resilient than that, I think. Our belief is often strongest when it should be weakest. That is the nature of hope. – Brandon Sanderson
  27. Positive thinking is better than negative thinking and… No thinking is far better then positive thinking – Ed Strachar
  28. Before sex, a man isn’t thinking clearly and a woman is thinking clearly. After sex, it reverses. The man is thinking clearly and a woman isn’t. – Sherry Argov
  29. Nature is powerful and beautiful,Nature is destructive and creative,Nature is amazing and wonderful,Nature is loving and graceful. – Debasish Mridha
  30. When a man is at his weakest is where he will find the greatest opportunity to become his strongest. – Calvin W Allison
  31. Your weakest version and highest self both live within you. Yes they do. – Ashlecka Aumrivani
  32. If frienship is your weakest point then you are the strongest person in the world. – Abraham Lincoln
  33. I’ve often observed that women can be the weakest link in women’s rights. – Jean Sasson
  34. Gods strength is manifestly perfected in your weakest weakness – Ikechukwu Joseph
  35. In our community, we have a duty to strengthen the weakest among us to build a better society. – Bill Courtney
  36. For the weakest has but to try his strength to find it, and then he shall be strong. – Robin Hobb
  37. Never underestimate the collective strength of your weakest connections. – Ryan Lilly
  38. If Strength comes through Suffering, why then I should be the strongest of all women, yet I am the weakest. God help me. Help me. – Lee Smith
  39. A chain is only as strong as its weakest link, and so is our character. – Billy Graham
  40. An individual school can handle a resident idiot from time to time, but an entire school system is only as good as its weakest leader. – Tucker Elliot

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