Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too; this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and sees distinctly what it loves.

Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from a religious conviction.

—Blaise Pascal

The strength of a man's virtue should not be measured by his special exertions, but by his habitual acts.

—Blaise Pascal

I have discovered that all human evil comes from this, man's being unable to sit still in a room.

—Blaise Pascal

Nature is an infinite sphere of which the center is everywhere and the circumference nowhere.

—Blaise Pascal

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

—Blaise Pascal

Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone—but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.

—Bette Davis

Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.

—Anton Chekhov

To love deeply in one direction makes us more loving in all others.

—Anne-Sophie Swetchine

Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.

—Alan Watts

It is sad not to love, but it is much sadder not to be able to love.

—Miguel de Unamuno