Blaise Pascal Quotes

It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.

Of all vices, drinking is the most incompatible with greatness.

The problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure they're going to have some pretty annoying virtues.

Nobody on this earth is perfect. Everybody has their flaws; everybody has their dark secrets and vices.

I've learned that we all have an ugly side.

One big vice in a man is apt to keep out a great many smaller ones.

Weaknesses, so called, are nothing more nor less than vice in disguise!

Vanity's ridiculous, but we all fall prey to it from time to time.

No one is born without vices, and he is the best man who is encumbered with the least.

two things do me in: one's chocolate cake, the other's hypocrisy.

I have no faith in a human critter who hasn't one or two bad habits.

I haven't a particle of confidence in a man who has no redeeming petty vices whatsoever.

We are human less by virtue of our ideal goals than by the vice of our inferiority.

He was royalty. So what? Everyone had a flaw.

I've found that all weak people share a basic obsession - they fixate on the idea of satisfaction. Anywhere you go men and women are like crows drawn by shiny objects. For some folks, the shiny objects are other people, and you'd be better off developing a drug habit.

Nature's law says that the strong must prevent the weak from living, but only in a newspaper article or textbook can this be packaged into a comprehensible thought. In the soup of everyday life, in the mixture of minutia from which human relations are woven, it is not a law. It is a logical incongruity when both strong and weak fall victim to their mutual relations, unconsciously subservient to some unknown guiding power that stands outside of life, irrelevant to man.

Who shall dare to talk of strength when David can fall?

The dangers of apparent self-sufficiency explain why Our Lord regards the vices of the feckless and dissipated so much more leniently than the vices that lead to worldly success.

Weaknesses of character are normally shown in a game of chess.

It is good to be often reminded of the inconsistency of human nature, and to learn to look without wonder or disgust on the weaknesses which are found in the strongest minds.

Sickness disgusts us with death, and we wish to get well, which is a way of wishing to live. But weakness and suffering, with manifold bodily woes, soon discourage the invalid from trying to regain ground: he tires of those respites which are but snares, of that faltering strength, those ardors cut short, and that perpetual lying in wait for the next attack.

Union of the weakest develops strength not wisdom. Can all men, together, avenge one of the leaves that have fallen in autumn? But the wise man avenges by building his city in snow.

I make predictions about what I'm going to do before a fight, that makes me nervous because I've gotten so good at it until people really look for me to do it.If I say the man's going to fall in round five, like your man Henry Cooper here, he was stopped in round five but it was on a cut - it wasn't because he was out. But usually 'm on the spot with my predictions and some people really gamble and bet money on the rounds I say.

Flaws would not only bring death but, far worse, humiliation.

Many times our weaknesses are extensions of our strengths.