This book is an anthology of quotes from Blaise Pascal and selected facts about Blaise Pascal. "You always admire what you really don't understand." "All man's troubles come from not knowing how to sit still in one room." "Between us and heaven or hell there is only life, which is the frailest thing in the world." "Do you wish people to think well of you? Don't speak well of yourself." "Happiness is neither without us nor within us. It is in God, both without us and within us." "We understand nothing of the works of God unless we take it as a principle that He wishes to blind some and to enlighten others."