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Which one of these four quotes is attributed to Blaise Pascal?
→ Justice and power must be brought together, so that whatever is just may be powerful, and whatever is powerful may be just.
→ We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.
→ We only consult the ear because the heart is wanting.
→ People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found by others.
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Pick the quote attributed to Blaise Pascal.
→ Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.
→ The immortality of the soul is a matter which is of so great consequence to us and which touches us so profoundly that we must have lost all feeling to be indifferent about it.
→ The world is satisfied with words, few care to dive beneath the surface.
→ It is much better to know something about everything than to know everything about one thing.
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Select the quotation attributed to Blaise Pascal.
→ Nothing gives rest but the sincere search for truth.
→ Few men speak humbly of humility, chastely of chastity, skeptically of skepticism.
→ The sensitivity of men to small matters, and their indifference to great ones, indicates a strange inversion.
→ We must keep our thought secret and judge everything by it while talking like the people.
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One of these may be attributed to Blaise Pascal. Which one?
→ Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.
→ Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary.
→ We must learn our limits. We are all something, but none of us are everything.
→ Few friendships would survive if each one knew what his friend says of him behind his back.
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Which one of these belongs to Blaise Pascal?
→ To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness.
→ I never fight, except against difficulties.
→ Love knows no limit to its endurance no end to its trust no fading of its hope it can outlast anything. Love still stands when all else has fallen.
→ The heart has arguments with which the logic of mind is not acquainted.
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Can you identify the right quote belonging to Blaise Pascal?
→ The only abnormality is the incapacity to love.
→ Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary.
→ Man's greatness lies in his power of thought.
→ Few friendships would survive if each one knew what his friend says of him behind his back.
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Guess which of these quotes is attributed to Blaise Pascal.
→ The ignorance of one voter in a democracy impairs the security of all.
→ Man can believe the impossible, but man can never believe the improbable.
→ It is much better to know something about everything than to know everything about one thing.
→ The best preparation for good work tomorrow is to do good work today.
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One of the following quotations belongs to Blaise Pascal. Which one?
→ We owe to our families both the ideas that we live by and the diseases that will one day claim our lives.
→ As long as we have some definite idea about or some hope in the future, we cannot really be serious with the moment that exists right now.
→ The only real progress lies in learning to be wrong all alone.
→ Nothing gives rest but the sincere search for truth.
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Can you guess which one of these belongs to Blaise Pascal?
→ It is probably not love that makes the world go around, but rather those mutually supportive alliances through which partners recognize their dependence on each other for the achievement of shared and private goals.
→ Few men speak humbly of humility, chastely of chastity, skeptically of skepticism.
→ The sensitivity of men to small matters, and their indifference to great ones, indicates a strange inversion.
→ We must keep our thought secret and judge everything by it while talking like the people.
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Try to identify the quote attributed to Blaise Pascal.
→ The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.
→ Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.
→ Man is obviously made for thinking. Therein lies all his dignity and his merit; and his whole duty is to think as he ought.
→ Love knows no limit to its endurance no end to its trust no fading of its hope it can outlast anything. Love still stands when all else has fallen.
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Looks like Blaise Pascal is the author of one of these.
→ To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness.
→ Those are weaklings who know the truth and uphold it as long as it suits their purpose, and then abandon it.
→ When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.
→ Today's younger generation is no worse than my own. We were just as ignorant and repulsive as they are, but nobody listened to us.
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Pick the one quotation belonging to Blaise Pascal.
→ Justice without force is powerless; force without justice is tyrannical.
→ The immortality of the soul is a matter which is of so great consequence to us and which touches us so profoundly that we must have lost all feeling to be indifferent about it.
→ He who does not know his way to the sea should take a river for his guide.
→ It is much better to know something about everything than to know everything about one thing.
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Which one should be attributed to Blaise Pascal?
→ We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world.
→ It is not good to be too free. It is not good to have everything one wants.
→ We never live, but we hope to live; and as we are always arranging to be happy, it must be that we never are so.
→ Ugly deeds are most estimable when hidden.
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Can you identify which quote belongs to Blaise Pascal?
→ Those are weaklings who know the truth and uphold it as long as it suits their purpose, and then abandon it.
→ The heart has arguments with which the logic of mind is not acquainted.
→ In each action we must look beyond the action at our past, present and future state, and at others whom it affects, and see the relation of all those things. And then we shall be very cautious.
→ To find recreation in amusement is not happiness.
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Select the quote belonging to Blaise Pascal.
→ No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave.
→ Man is obviously made for thinking. Therein lies all his dignity and his merit; and his whole duty is to think as he ought.
→ In each action we must look beyond the action at our past, present and future state, and at others whom it affects, and see the relation of all those things. And then we shall be very cautious.
→ The war existing between the senses and reason.
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Choose which quotation belongs to Blaise Pascal.
→ I have tried to know absolutely nothing about a great many things, and I have succeeded fairly well.
→ It is not good to be too free. It is not good to have everything one wants.
→ The heart has arguments with which the logic of mind is not acquainted.
→ We never live, but we hope to live; and as we are always arranging to be happy, it must be that we never are so.
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Select the quote, which is attributable to Blaise Pascal.
→ Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.
→ Those are weaklings who know the truth and uphold it as long as it suits their purpose, and then abandon it.
→ Love knows no limit to its endurance no end to its trust no fading of its hope it can outlast anything. Love still stands when all else has fallen.
→ When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.
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Identify the quotation belonging to Blaise Pascal?
→ The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.
→ We never live, but we hope to live; and as we are always arranging to be happy, it must be that we never are so.
→ To find recreation in amusement is not happiness.
→ The war existing between the senses and reason.
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One of the following quotes belongs to Blaise Pascal. Pick one.
→ No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave.
→ In each action we must look beyond the action at our past, present and future state, and at others whom it affects, and see the relation of all those things. And then we shall be very cautious.
→ When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.
→ Beauty is a harmonious relation between something in our nature and the quality of the object which delights us.
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Guess the right quote, which belongs to Blaise Pascal.
→ Of all human powers operating on the affairs of mankind, none is greater than that of competition.
→ Bravery is the knowledge of the cowardice in the enemy.
→ Fear the goat from the front, the horse from the rear and man from all sides.
→ Noble deeds that are concealed are most esteemed.
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Which one of these four quotes is attributed to Blaise Pascal?
→ Justice without force is powerless; force without justice is tyrannical.
→ The world is satisfied with words, few care to dive beneath the surface.
→ People are generally better persuaded by the reasons which they have themselves discovered than by those which have come into the mind of others.
→ He who does not know his way to the sea should take a river for his guide.
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Pick the quote attributed to Blaise Pascal.
→ The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble.
→ Always remember to forget the friends that proved untrue, but never forget to remember those that have stuck by you.
→ Trust your instinct to the end, though you can render no reason.
→ No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.
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Select the quotation attributed to Blaise Pascal.
→ Practical politics consists in ignoring facts.
→ It’s the high priests that issue demands, not the gods they serve.
→ Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it.
→ Only the dead have seen the end of war.
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One of these may be attributed to Blaise Pascal. Which one?
→ The last thing one discovers in composing a work is what to put first.
→ It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.
→ The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.
→ Power is ever stealing from the many to the few.
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Which one of these belongs to Blaise Pascal?
→ If you want to be thought a liar, always tell the truth.
→ People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found by others.
→ The more you are talked about the less powerful you are.
→ It is good to love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is well done.
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Can you identify the right quote belonging to Blaise Pascal?
→ Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too; this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and sees distinctly what it loves.
→ If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
→ Great dancers are not great because of their technique, they are great because of their passion.
→ Trust everybody, but cut the cards.
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Guess which of these quotes is attributed to Blaise Pascal.
→ Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.
→ Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary.
→ The immortality of the soul is a matter which is of so great consequence to us and which touches us so profoundly that we must have lost all feeling to be indifferent about it.
→ The struggle alone pleases us, not the victory.
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One of the following quotations belongs to Blaise Pascal. Which one?
→ The only abnormality is the incapacity to love.
→ The consciousness of the falsity of present pleasures, and the ignorance of the vanity of absent pleasures, cause inconstancy.
→ We must learn our limits. We are all something, but none of us are everything.
→ He who does not know his way to the sea should take a river for his guide.
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Can you guess which one of these belongs to Blaise Pascal?
→ You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you.
→ The earth has music for those who listen.
→ People are generally better persuaded by the reasons which they have themselves discovered than by those which have come into the mind of others.
→ Broad-minded is just another way of saying a fellow’s too lazy to form an opinion.
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Try to identify the quote attributed to Blaise Pascal.
→ The world is satisfied with words, few care to dive beneath the surface.
→ The struggle alone pleases us, not the victory.
→ Man's greatness lies in his power of thought.
→ Few friendships would survive if each one knew what his friend says of him behind his back.
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Looks like Blaise Pascal is the author of one of these.
→ Justice without force is powerless; force without justice is tyrannical.
→ We must learn our limits. We are all something, but none of us are everything.
→ The struggle alone pleases us, not the victory.
→ Man's greatness lies in his power of thought.
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Pick the one quotation belonging to Blaise Pascal.
→ In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
→ Action expresses priorities.
→ The immortality of the soul is a matter which is of so great consequence to us and which touches us so profoundly that we must have lost all feeling to be indifferent about it.
→ A true leader has the confidence to stand alone, the courage to make tough decisions, and the compassion to listen to the needs of others. He does not set out to be a leader, but becomes one by the equality of his actions and the integrity of his intent.
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Which one should be attributed to Blaise Pascal?
→ The consciousness of the falsity of present pleasures, and the ignorance of the vanity of absent pleasures, cause inconstancy.
→ People are generally better persuaded by the reasons which they have themselves discovered than by those which have come into the mind of others.
→ Man's greatness lies in his power of thought.
→ It is much better to know something about everything than to know everything about one thing.
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Can you identify which quote belongs to Blaise Pascal?
→ Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.
→ He who does not know his way to the sea should take a river for his guide.
→ Few men speak humbly of humility, chastely of chastity, skeptically of skepticism.
→ We must keep our thought secret and judge everything by it while talking like the people.
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Select the quote belonging to Blaise Pascal.
→ We only consult the ear because the heart is wanting.
→ Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions.
→ What is called a reason for living is also an excellent reason for dying.
→ It is always easy to be logical. It is almost impossible to be logical to the bitter end.
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Choose which quotation belongs to Blaise Pascal.
→ Justice and power must be brought together, so that whatever is just may be powerful, and whatever is powerful may be just.
→ We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.
→ We only consult the ear because the heart is wanting.
→ People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found by others.
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Select the quote, which is attributable to Blaise Pascal.
→ It takes a lot of time to be a genius, you have to sit around so much doing nothing, really doing nothing.
→ Man is obviously made for thinking. Therein lies all his dignity and his merit; and his whole duty is to think as he ought.
→ Ugly deeds are most estimable when hidden.
→ Beauty is a harmonious relation between something in our nature and the quality of the object which delights us.
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Identify the quotation belonging to Blaise Pascal?
→ When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.
→ Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.
→ The eternal silence of these infinite spaces fills me with dread.
→ Fishing is a delusion entirely surrounded by liars in old clothes.
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One of the following quotes belongs to Blaise Pascal. Pick one.
→ I never fight, except against difficulties.
→ We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world.
→ Ugly deeds are most estimable when hidden.
→ The war existing between the senses and reason.
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