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Once your soul has been enlarged by a truth, it can never return to its original size.

Once your soul has been enlarged by a truth, it can never return to its original size.

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Truth, Soul, Investing

The immortality of the soul is a matter which is of so great consequence to us and which touches us so profoundly that we must have lost all feeling to be indifferent about it.

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Soul, Feelings, Matter
Blaise Pascal (2010). “Thoughts, Letters & Minor Works”, p.70, Cosimo, Inc.

Kind words produce their images on men's souls.

Blaise Pascal
Men, Soul, Kind

The statements of atheists ought to be perfectly clear of doubt. Now it is not perfectly clear that the soul is material.

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Atheist, Soul, Doubt
Blaise Pascal (1829). “Thoughts on Religion and Other Subjects”, p.226

No soul of high estate can take pleasure in slander. It betrays a weakness.

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Betrayal, Soul, Weakness

We have so exalted a notion of the human soul that we cannot bear to be despised, or even not to be esteemed by it. Man, in fact, places all his happiness in this esteem.

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Respect, Men, Soul
Blaise Pascal (1828). “Thoughts on religion, and other subjects”, p.95

The imagination enlarges little objects so as to fill our souls with a fantastic estimate; and, with rash insolence, it belittles the great to its own measure, as when talking of God.

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Talking, Imagination, Soul
Blaise Pascal (2016). “Pensées”, p.49, Open Road Media

Dans une grande a" me tout est grand. In a great soul everything isgreat.

Blaise Pascal
Soul, Great Souls

When malice has reason on its side, it looks forth bravely, and displays that reason in all its luster. When austerity and self-denial have not realized true happiness, and the soul returns to the dictates of nature, the reaction is fearfully extravagant.

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Self, Soul, Austerity
Blaise Pascal (1849). “Thoughts of Blaise Pascal”, p.133

No one is ignorant that there are two avenues by which opinions are received into the soul, which are its two principal powers: the understanding and the will.

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Two, Understanding, Soul
Blaise Pascal (2010). “Thoughts, Letters & Minor Works”, p.406, Cosimo, Inc.

Things have different qualities, and the soul different inclinations; for nothing is simple which is presented to the soul, and the soul never presents itself simply to any object. Hence it comes that we weep and laugh at the same thing.

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Simple, Laughing, Soul
Blaise Pascal (2013). “Pascal's Pensees”, p.38, Simon and Schuster

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