Men seek rest in a struggle against difficulties; and when they have conquered these, rest becomes insufferable. - Blaise Pascal

There are some men who expose themselves to damnation so foolishly by avarice, by brutality, by debauches, by violence, by excesses, by blasphemies! ...it is always a great folly for a man to expose himself to damnation... He must despise desire and its kingdom, and aspire to that kingdom of love in which all the subjects breathe nothing but love, and desire nothing but the benefits of love.

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

All of our reasoning ends in surrender to feeling.