Pascal

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    If Montaigne is a man in the prime of life sitting in his study on a warm morning and putting down the sum of his experience in his rich, sinewy prose, then Pascal is that same man lying awake in the small hours of the night when death seems very close and every thought is heightened by the apprehension that it may be his last.
    Cyril Connolly (1903–1974)

    There are some who speak well and write badly. For the place and the audience warm them, and draw from their minds more than they think of without that warmth.
    —Blaise Pascal (1623–1662)

    The conduct of God who disposes all things kindly, is to put religion into the mind by reason, and into the heart by grace. But to attempt to put it into the mind and heart by force and threats is not to put religion there, but terror.
    —Blaise Pascal (1623–1662)