Eloquence is painted thought, and thus those who, after having painted it, add somewhat more, make a picture, not a portrait. - Blaise Pascal

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Eloquence is painted thought, and thus those who, after having painted it, add somewhat more, make a picture, not a portrait.

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About Blaise Pascal

Blaise Pascal (19 June 1623 – 19 August 1662) was a French mathematician, logician, physicist and theologian.

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Alternative Names: Pascal Louis de Montalte Amos Dettonville Dettonville Paskal Blez
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Anyone who wants to know the full extent of man's vanity has only to consider the causes and effects of love. The cause is a je ne sais quoi. (Corneille.) And its effects are terrifying. This indefinable something, so trifling that we cannot recognize it, upsets the whole earth, princes, armies, the entire world.

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