Miscellaneous

She is slender and enigmatic – just the two traits men want.  -- Alexander Pushkin

To know our wretchedness without knowing our greatness produces despair.  To know our greatness without realizing our wretchedness inflames our pride.  -- Thomas Morris

Two excesses: to exclude reason, to admit nothing but reason.  -- Blaise Pascal

Man’s true nature, his true good and true virtue, and true religion are things that cannot be known separately.  - Blaise Pascal

Truth is so obscured nowadays and lies so well established that unless we love the truth we shall never recognize it.  -- Blaise Pascal

Men’s lives are not always consistent with their ideals.  -- Gregory Hayes

A human being survives by his ability to forget.  -- Varlam Shalamov