Quotes About Blaise

128] Two things teach man about his whole nature: instinct and experience.

not in order to become wiser, but only in order to prove that they know them; and these are the most senseless of the band

But what is nature? For is custom not natural? I am much afraid that nature is itself only a first custom, as custom is a second nature.

Vanity is illustrated in the cause and effect of love, as in the case of Cleopatra.