Our imagination so magnifies the present, because we are continually thinking about it, and so reduces eternity, because we do not think about it, th… - Blaise Pascal

These two states which it is necessary to know together in order to see the whole truth, being known separately, lead necessarily to one of these two vices, pride or indolence, in which all men are invariably led before grace, since if they do not remain in their disorders through laxity, they forsake them through vanity, so true is that which you have just repeated to me from St. Augustine, and which I find to a great extent; for in fact homage is rendered to them in many ways.

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.

С какой лёгкостью и самодовольством злодействует человек, когда он верит, что творит благое дело!