One must know oneself. If this does not serve to discover truth, it at least serves as a rule of life, and there is nothing better. - Blaise Pascal

Eloquence is an art of saying things in such a way (1) that those to whom we speak may listen to them without pain and with pleasure; (2) that they feel themselves interested, so that self-love leads them more willingly to reflection upon it.

And thus, by combining the uncertainty of chance with the force of mathematical proof and by the reconciliation of two apparent opposites, she derives her name from both of them and rightfully assumes the wonderful name of Mathematics of Chance!

Nature has made all her truths independent of one another. Our art makes one dependent on the other.