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8 sourced quotes by Blaise Pascal on work, excellence & success, character & virtue, education & knowledge, media, speech & public opinion, culture, art & literature, with a use case for each in GS4, Essay and interviews.
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If you act externally with men in conformity with your rank, you should recognize, by a more secret but truer thought, that you have nothing naturally superior to them.
The mind must not be forced; artificial and constrained manners fill it with foolish presumption, through unnatural elevation and vain and ridiculous inflation, instead of solid and vigorous nutriment.
The art of persuasion consists as much in that of pleasing as in that of convincing, so much more are men governed by caprice than by reason!
The best books are those, which those who read them believe they themselves could have written.
If we do not secure the foundation, we cannot secure the edifice.
I would have written a shorter letter, but I did not have the time.
It is not among extraordinary and fantastic things that excellence is to be found, of whatever kind it may be. We rise to attain it and become removed from it: it is oftenest necessary to stoop for it.
People almost invariably arrive at their beliefs not on the basis of proof but on the basis of what they find attractive.