When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.

One must know oneself, if this does not serve to discover truth, it at least serves as a rule of life and there is nothing better.

—Blaise Pascal

We are generally the better persuaded by the reasons we discover ourselves than by those given to us by others.

—Blaise Pascal

It is the fight alone that pleases us, not the victory.

—Blaise Pascal

You always admire what you really don't understand.

—Blaise Pascal

Eloquence is a painting of the thoughts.

—Blaise Pascal

The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one's own country as a foreign land.

—G. K. Chesterton

Resolve and thou art free.

—Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Time and memory are true artists; they remould reality nearer to the heart's desire.

—John Dewey

Life is an unbroken succession of false situations.

—Thornton Wilder

The reverse side also has a reverse side.

—Japanese proverb