#with

I know how easy it is for one to stay well within moral, ethical, and legal bounds through the skillful use of words - and to thereby spin, sidestep, circumvent, or bend a truth completely out of shape. To that extent, we are all liars on numerous occasions. ↗

— Sidney Poitier

#bounds #completely #easy #ethical #extent

Jesus is the God whom we can approach without pride and before whom we can humble ourselves without despair. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#before #despair #god #humble #jesus

If you gain, you gain all. If you lose, you lose nothing. Wager then, without hesitation, that He exists. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#gain #hesitation #lose #nothing #then

The weather and my mood have little connection. I have my foggy and my fine days within me; my prosperity or misfortune has little to do with the matter. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#days #fine #foggy #i #little

Happiness is neither without us nor within us. It is in God, both without us and within us. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#both #god #neither #nor #us

Law, without force, is impotent. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#law #without

Nothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest, without a passion, without business, without entertainment, without care. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#business #care #entertainment #fully #intolerable

We sail within a vast sphere, ever drifting in uncertainty, driven from end to end. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#driven #end #ever #sail #sphere

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

#badly #draw #minds #more #place

Experience, already reduced to a group of impressions, is ringed round for each one of us by that thick wall of personality through which no real voice has ever pierced on its way to us, or from us to that which we can only conjecture to be without. ↗

— Walter Pater

#conjecture #each #ever #experience #group