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There is a certain standard of grace and beauty which consists in a certain relation between our nature... and the thing which pleases us.

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

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  1. Eloquence.-” We need both what is pleasing and what is real, but that which pleases must itself be drawn from the true. – Blaise Pascal
  2. Grace is an empowerment to be above and beyond reproach, to live your life at a standard that pleases God. – Bidemi MarkMordi
  3. The more one pleases generally, the less one pleases profoundly. – Krister Stendahl
  4. Nature has made all her truths independent of one another. Our art makes one dependent on the other. – Blaise Pascal
  5. Those honor nature well, who teach that she can speak on everything. – Blaise Pascal
  6. Our intellect holds the same position in the world of thought as our body occupies in the expanse of nature. – Blaise Pascal
  7. Man is but a reed, the weakest in nature, but he is a thinking reed. – Blaise Pascal
  8. The relation of woman to husband, of of daughter to father, of sister to brother, is a relation of vassalage. – Simone de Beauvoir
  9. The relation of woman to husband, of daughter to father, of sister to brother, is a relation of vassalage. – Simone de Beauvoir
  10. Trust is the fuel to a relation, the more it is- the far the relation moves.. – Debolina Bhawal
  11. Men spend their time in following a ball or a hare it is the pleasure even of kings. – Blaise Pascal
  12. Few friendships would survive if each one knew what his friend says of him behind his back – Blaise Pascal
  13. All of humanity’s problems stem from man’s inability to sit quietly in a room alone. – Blaise Pascal
  14. When we read too fast or too slowly, we understand nothing. – Blaise Pascal
  15. I would prefer an intelligent hell to a stupid paradise. – Blaise Pascal
  16. Lust is the source of all our actions, and humanity. – Blaise Pascal
  17. The last thing we discover in composing a work is what to put down first. – Blaise Pascal
  18. If we examine our thoughts, we shall find them always occupied with the past and the future. – Blaise Pascal
  19. God instituted prayer to communicate to creatures the dignity of causality. – Blaise Pascal
  20. Men are so inevitably mad that not to be mad would be to give a mad twist to madness. – Blaise Pascal
  21. Kind words produce their images on men’s souls. – Blaise Pascal
  22. 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
  23. Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction. – Blaise Pascal
  24. Few men speak humbly of humility, chastely of chastity, skeptically of skepticism. – Blaise Pascal
  25. If man studied himself, he would see how incapable he is of going further. – Blaise Pascal
  26. Curiosity is only vanity. We usually only want to know something so that we can talk about it. – Blaise Pascal
  27. 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
  28. Eloquence is painted thought, and thus those who, after having painted it, add somewhat more, make a picture, not a portrait. – Blaise Pascal
  29. The last thing one knows when writing a book is what to put first. – Blaise Pascal
  30. All men’s miseries derive from not being able to sit quiet in a room alone. – Blaise Pascal
  31. Outer beauty pleases the EYE. Inner beauty captivates the HEART. – Mandy Hale
  32. Beauty that pleases the eye is a frail, fleeting illusion. But that beauty capable of pleasing the heart can endure endlessly. – Richelle E Goodrich
  33. And suddenly he thought, I’m the abnormal one now. Normalcy was a majority concept, the standard of many and not the standard of just one man. – Richard Matheson
  34. You were born on a certain day, in a certain place, and on a certain time. God has a plan for you. – Phil Mitchell
  35. All kinds of beauty do not inspire love; there is a kind which only pleases the sight, but does not captivate the affections. – Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
  36. I love classic beauty. It’s an idea of beauty with no standard. – Karl Lagerfeld
  37. Nature is powerful and beautiful,Nature is destructive and creative,Nature is amazing and wonderful,Nature is loving and graceful. – Debasish Mridha
  38. Satire may be mad and anarchic, but it presupposes an admitted superiority in certain things over others; it presupposes a standard. – GK Chesterton
  39. It seems everything in nature that has beauty, also has a price.Let the value of our planets wildlife be to nature and nature alone. – Paul Oxton
  40. Only a philosopher would consider taking Oedipus as a model for a normal, unproblematic relation between an action and the maxim of the act. – Jerry A Fodor

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