Blaise Pascal

We are all something, but none of us are everything.

Topic: Reputation, Self
Location: Death Valley National Park
Photo: Jeffrey Benjamin

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I lay it down as a fact that if all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world.

› Blaise Pascal

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People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found by others. — Blaise Pascal

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What is a man in nature? Nothing in relation to the infinite, everything in relation to nothing, a mean between nothing and everything.

We should seek the truth without hesitation; and, if we refuse it, we show that we value the esteem of men more than the search for truth.

› Blaise Pascal

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Nothing is so firmly believed as that which we least know. — Michel de Montaigne

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Successful people move on their own initiative, but they know where they are going before they start. — Napoleon Hill

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A permanent state of transition is man's most notable condition. — Juan Ramon Jimenez

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Some people are so afraid to die that they never begin to live. — Henry Van Dyke

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If a man have a strong faith he can indulge in the luxury of skepticism. — Friedrich Nietzsche

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He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it the second time. — Thomas Jefferson

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The world will little note nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. — Abraham Lincoln

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People tend to believe what others say about you than you about yourself. — Jeffrey Benjamin

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What people say, what people do, and what they say they do are entirely different things. — Margaret Mead

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A bore is a person who opens his mouth and puts his feats in it. — Henry Ford

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You have no idea what your legacy will be. Your legacy is what you do every day. Your legacy is every life you’ve touched, every person whose life was either moved or not. It’s every person you’ve harmed or helped. That’s your legacy.

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You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, buy you will never imprison my mind.

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The stability of the internal medium is a primary condition for the freedom and independence of certain living bodies in relation to the environment surrounding them.

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