Happiness can be found neither in ourselves nor in external things, but in God and in ourselves as united to him. - Blaise Pascal

Man finds nothing so intolerable as to be in a state of complete rest, without passions, without occupation, without diversion, without effort.

Then he faces his nullity, loneliness, inadequacy, dependence, helplessness, emptiness.

And at once there wells up from the depths of his soul boredom, gloom, depression, chagrin, resentment, despair.

Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too; this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and sees distinctly what it loves.

Qui aurait trouvé le secret de se réjouir du bien sans se fâcher du mal contraire aurait trouvé le point.