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Biography - Blaise Pascal:

French mathematician, physicist, writer and philosopher.
Born: 1623 - Died: 1662
Period:
17th century
Place of birth: France
France

All good maxims are in the world. We only need to apply them.
Blaise Pascal - Pensées


Note 

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Quote source: Pensées

Wikisource - Œuvres complètes de Blaise Pascal (fr) 



Translation

Translation

(French, German)



French
Toutes les bonnes maximes sont dans le monde ; on ne manque qu'à les appliquer.
Blaise Pascal - Pensées

German
Alle guten Maximen gibt es schon; man lässt es nur daran fehlen, sie anzuwenden.
Blaise Pascal - Pensées



See also 

See also...



Knowing is not enough; we must apply.
Willing is not enough; we must do.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.
Marcus Aurelius

It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
René Descartes - Discourse on the Method

Good is not something to contemplate; it is something to be done.
André Comte-Sponville - A Small Treatise on the Great Virtues

Of the experience I have of myself, I find enough to make me wise, if I were but a good scholar.
Michel de Montaigne - Essays

Everything clever has already been thought; we must only try to think it again.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - Maxims and Reflections

One has to do good in order for it to exist in the world.
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again.
André Gide



Quotes

Blaise Pascal also said...


The weakness of human reason appears more evidently in those who know it not, than in those who know it.
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Wisdom leads us back to childhood.
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Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed.
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The heart has its reasons, of which reason knows nothing.
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The world is generally so restless, that men scarcely ever think of the present time, and the instant they are now actually living, but of those in which they are to live. So that we are always in a disposition to live in future, but never to live now.
Blaise Pascal - Letters to Mr and Mlle de Rouannez / 





All our dignity consists, then, in thought. By it we must elevate ourselves, and not by space and time which we cannot fill.
Let us endeavour then to think well; this is the principle of morality.
Blaise Pascal - Pensées / 







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