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“I have only made this letter longer because I have not had the time to make it shorter."
(Letter 16, 1657)”
― The Provincial Letters
(Letter 16, 1657)”
― The Provincial Letters
“Few men speak humbly of humility, chastely of chastity, skeptically of skepticism.”
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“Il n'est pas certain que tout soit incertain.
(Translation: It is not certain that everything is uncertain.)”
― Pascal's Pensees
(Translation: It is not certain that everything is uncertain.)”
― Pascal's Pensees
“The devil, the originator of sorrowful anxieties and restless troubles, flees before the sound of music almost as much as before the Word of God....Music is a gift and grace of God, not an invention of men. Thus it drives out the devil and makes people cheerful. Then one forgets all wrath, impurity, and other devices.”
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“The heart has its reasons which reason knows not.”
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