Great and small suffer the same mishaps.
Weitere Zitate von Blaise Pascal
Zum Autor"There are only two kinds of men: the righteous who think they are sinners and the sinners who think they are righteous."
"What a Chimera is man! What a novelty, a monster, a chaos, a contradiction, a prodigy! Judge of all things, an imbecile worm; depository of truth, and sewer of error and doubt; the glory and refuse of the universe."
"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."
"Human beings must be known to be loved but Divine beings must be loved to be known."
"Since we cannot know all that there is to be known about anything, we ought to know a little about everything."
"People are generally better persuaded by the reasons which they have themselves discovered than by those which have come into the mind of others."