Please forgive the long letter; I didn’t have time to write a short one. - Blaise Pascal

Il n'est pas certain que tout soit incertain.
(Translation: It is not certain that everything is uncertain.)

The art of persuasion consists as much in that of pleasing as in that of convincing, so much more are men governed by caprice than by reason!

Let them at least learn what is the religion they attack, before attacking it. If this religion boasted of having a clear view of God, and of possessing it open and unveiled, it would be attacking it to say that we see nothing in the world which shows it with this clearness. But since, on the contrary, it says that men are