Both he who chooses heads and he who chooses tails are equally at fault. They are both in the wrong. True course is not to wager at all. - Blaise Pascal

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!

We run heedlessly into the abyss after putting something in front of us to stop us seeing it.

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.