Pascal

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    Rivers are roads which move, and which carry us whither we desire to go.
    —Blaise Pascal (1623–1662)

    Nothing fortifies scepticism more than the fact that there are some who are not sceptics; if all were so, they would be wrong.
    —Blaise Pascal (1623–1662)

    The greatness of man is so evident that it is even proved by his wretchedness. For what in animals is nature, we call in man wretchedness—by which we recognize that, his nature being now like that of animals, he has fallen from a better nature which once was his.
    —Blaise Pascal (1623–1662)