Things are always at their best in their beginning.

Les choses valent tousjours mieux dans leur source.

Blaise Pascal

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Things get worse

Author

Blaise Pascal

Statement Type

Precepts and axioms

Language

French

Time

1656 1650s 17th century

Occupation

Philosopher Writer

From

France Europe

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Citation

Pascal, Blaise [published as Louis de Montalte]. "February 25, 1656." Les Provinciales ou Les Lettres Escrites [The Provincial Letters]. c. 1657, letter 4.

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The last act is bloody, no matter how happy the rest of the play.

Blaise Pascal

Pensées

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Drama

Author

Blaise Pascal
Source
Pensées
Medium
Epigram
Genre
Philosophical literature
Language
French
Time
1670 1670s 17th century
Authentication Score 3
Original Citation

Pascal, Blaise. Pensées [Thoughts]. Paris: Chez G. Desprez, 1670, no. 55.

Current Citation

Pascal, Blaise. "Pensées." Pensées and Other Writings, edited by Anthony Levi, translated by Honor Levi. Oxford University Press, 2008, no. 55.

Another quote from the 1650s

Such truth as opposeth no man's profit nor pleasure is to all men welcome.

Thomas Hobbes

Leviathan

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Truth

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Thomas Hobbes
Source
Leviathan
Genre
Political literature Philosophical literature
Language
English
Time
1651 1650s 17th century
Authentication Score 3
Original Citation

Hobbes, Thomas. Leviathan or The Matter, Forme and Power of a Commonwealth Ecclesiasticall and Civil. London: Andrew Crooke, 1651, pt. 4, a review and conclusion.

Current Citation

Hobbes, Thomas. Leviathan, edited by Christopher Brooke. Penguin Classics, 2017, pt. 4, a review and conclusion.

Another quote originally in French

My center is giving way, my right is retreating, situation excellent, I am attacking.

Ferdinand Foch

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Aggression Battle
Speaker
Ferdinand Foch
Language
French
Time
1914 1910s 20th century
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Citation

Foch, Ferdinand. Message sent during the first Battle of the Marne. 8 Sept. 1914.

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As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches one.

Mike Godwin

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Topic
The internet

Author

Mike Godwin
Source
Wired Magazine
Medium
Magazine
Statement Type
Precepts and axioms
Language
English
Time
1994 1990s 20th century
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Citation

Godwin, Mike. "Meme, Counter-Meme." Wired, 1 Oct. 1994.