Όταν λέμε την αλήθεια, ωφελούμε κείνους που τη μαθαίνουν, μα ζημιώνουμε τον εαυτό μας, γιατί θα μας μισήσουν - Blaise Pascal

Being unable to overcome death, misery, and uncertainty, men have agreed, in order to be happy, not to think about them.

Five [of the above] rules are of absolute necessity, and cannot be dispensed with without essential defect and often without error.

It is necessary to have regard to the person whom we wish to persuade, of whom we must know the mind and the heart, what principles he acknowledges, what things he loves; and then observe in the thing in question what affinity it has with the acknowledged principles, or with the objects so delightful by the pleasure which they give him.