What a great advantage to be of noble birth, since it gives a man of eighteen the standing, recognition and respect that another man might not earn b… - Blaise Pascal
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What a great advantage to be of noble birth, since it gives a man of eighteen the standing, recognition and respect that another man might not earn before he was fifty. That means winning thirty years’ start with no effort.
Blaise Pascal (19 June 1623 – 19 August 1662) was a French mathematician, logician, physicist and theologian.
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Wikimedia Commons, unknown; a copy of the painting of François II Quesnel, which was made for Gérard Edelinck en 1691[réf. nécessaire]. (Public domain / CC0)
Also Known As
Pen Names:
Louis de Montalte
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Amos Dettonville
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Salomon de Tultie
Alternative Names:
Pascal
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Dettonville
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Paskal Blez
Portrait from Wikimedia Commons. Credit: unknown; a copy of the painting of François II Quesnel, which was made for Gérard Edelinck en 1691[réf. nécessaire].. Used under Public domain / CC0. Processed and styled by Quotewise.
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When I consider the brief span of my life absorbed into the eternity which comes before and after — as the remembrance of a guest that tarrieth but a day — the small space I occupy and which I see swallowed up in the infinite immensity of spaces of which I know nothing and which know nothing of me, I take fright and am amazed to see myself here rather than there, now rather than then.
Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth.
