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"Modern as the style of Pascal's writing is, his thought is deeply impregnated with the spirit of the Middle Ages. He belonged, almost equally, to the future and to the past."
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"Words without thoughts never to heaven go."
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"We seldom find people ungrateful so long as it is thought we can serve them."
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"I've been drunk for about a week now, and I thought it might sober me up to sit in a library."
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"Too much thought can find fault in anything, even if there is no fault to be found."
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"Even if things were the same, people's perception of them might have been very different back then. The darkness of night was probably deeper then, so the moon must have been that much bigger and brighter."
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"A subtle thought that is in error may yet give rise to fruitful inquiry that can establish truths of great value."
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"The beginning of thought is in disagreement - not only with others but also with ourselves."
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"It is especially important to encourage unorthodox thinking when the situation is critical: At such moments every new word and fresh thought is more precious than gold. Indeed, people must not be deprived of the right to think their own thoughts."
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"By this act the president alone is empowered to make the law, to fix in his mind what acts, words, what thoughts or looks, shall constitute such a crime."
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"A room hung with pictures is a room hung with thoughts."
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"Discretion is not the better part of biography."
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"Modern as the style of Pascal's writing is, his thought is deeply impregnated with the spirit of the Middle Ages. He belonged, almost equally, to the future and to the past."
Thought
"In pure literature, the writers of the eighteenth century achieved, indeed, many triumphs; but their great, their peculiar, triumphs were in the domain of thought."
Thought
"Though, with the ascendancy of Louis, the political power of the nobles finally came to an end, France remained, in the whole complexion of her social life, completely aristocratic."
Power
"With a very few exceptions, every word in the French vocabulary comes straight from the Latin."
Language
"The history of the Victorian Age will never be written: we know too much about it."
Age
"When the French nation gradually came into existence among the ruins of the Roman civilization in Gaul, a new language was at the same time slowly evolved."
Time
"The stability and peace which seemed to be so firmly established by the brilliant monarchy of Francis I vanished with the terrible outbreak of the Wars of Religion."
Peace
"The amateur is very rare in French literature - as rare as he is common in our own."
Literature
"But Racine's extraordinary powers as a writer become still more obvious when we consider that besides being a great poet he is also a great psychologist."
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