Blaise Pascal

I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter.

You can do anything, but not everything.

I never hurt nobody but myself and that’s nobody’s business but my own.

Only when you are kinder to yourself, you can be kinder to the world.

There can be no lasting peace where hatred exists. Hatreds will continue to arise as long as the causes of war are not rooted out and exposed.

Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.

What’s wrong with being a boring kind of guy?

“You should know our mania for building is stronger than ever. It is a diabolical thing. It consumes money and the more you build, the more you want to build. It’s a sickness like being addicted to alcohol.

I don’t want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.

Forgiveness of those who have transgressed against you, or those you love, is not about them; it is about you. It is a gift to yourself.

I like to surprise myself.

Don’t worry about things you cannot alter.

I was brought up to be a gentleman. That means you know how to walk, talk and dress the part.

Pies, para que los quiero si tengo alas para volar. (“Feet, what do I need them for if I have wings to fly.”)

There is nothing so stable as change.

It is not best that we should all think alike; it is difference of opinion that make horseraces.