Blaise Pascal Quotes About Eloquence

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  • There should be in eloquence that which is pleasing and that which is real; but that which is pleasing should itself be real.

    Blaise Pascal (1829). “Thoughts on Religion and Other Subjects”, p.284
  • Continued eloquence is wearisome.

  • True eloquence scorns eloquence.

    Blaise Pascal, Henry Rogers, Victor Cousin, Charles Louandre (1859). “The Thoughts, Letters and Opuscules of Blaise Pascal”, p.240
  • Eloquence is the painting of thought.

  • Continuous eloquence is tedious.

  • Eloquence is a painting of thought; and thus those who, after having painted it, add something more, make a picture instead of a portrait.

    Blaise Pascal (2009). “Thoughts”, p.21, Lulu.com
  • La vraie e loquence se moque de l'e loquence, la vraie morale se moque de la morale. True eloquence has notime foreloquence, true morality has no time for morality.

  • Continuous eloquence wearies.

    Blaise Pascal (2010). “Thoughts, Letters and Minor Works”, p.122, Cosimo, Inc.
  • Eloquence; it requires the pleasant and the real; but the pleasant must itself be drawn from the true.

    Blaise Pascal (2013). “Pascal's Pensees”, p.11, Simon and Schuster
  • True eloquence makes light of eloquence. True morality makes light of morality.

    Blaise Pascal (2010). “Thoughts, Letters and Minor Works”, p.10, Cosimo, Inc.
  • Eloquence is a way of saying things in such a way, first, that those to whom we speak may listen to them without pain and with pleasure, and second, that they feel themselves interested, so that self-love leads them more willingly to reflection upon it.

  • Continuous eloquence wearies. Grandeur must be abandoned to be appreciated. Continuity in everything is unpleasant. Cold is agreeable, that we may get warm.

    Blaise Pascal, W. F. Trotter, T. S. Eliot (2003). “Pensees”, p.98, Courier Corporation
  • E? loquence quipersuade par douceur, non par empire, en tyran, non en roi. Eloquence should persuade gently, not by force or like a tyrant or king.

  • True eloquence makes light of eloquence, true morality makes light of morality; that is to say, the morality of the judgment, which has no rules, makes light of the morality of the intellect.... To make light of philosophy is to be a true philosopher.

    Blaise Pascal (2009). “Thoughts”, p.16, Lulu.com
  • Eloquence is a painting of the thoughts.

    "Pensées", XXIV. 88 in "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, (pp. 219-220), 1922.
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Blaise Pascal

  • Born: June 19, 1623
  • Died: August 19, 1662
  • Occupation: Mathematician