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Looking for a few (more than three) classic quotes by Blaise Pascal (Chinese and English)

Man was created to think.

Man is a thinking reed. (This sentence needs to be verified)

The essence of life lies in movement, and tranquility is death.

In this day and age, the truth is so obscure and the lies are so deep-rooted that unless we love the truth, we will not know the truth.

Studying truth can have three purposes: when we explore, we must discover the truth; when we find it, we must prove the truth; when we examine it, we must distinguish it from fallacy.

Don’t think of labor as just cultivating the wilderness of material gains. It is a noble hoe that can also open up the wilderness of our souls. In any case, we can strengthen our minds and bodies through labor and get rid of all kinds of evil weeds spreading in our hearts. Then, sow the seeds of happiness and joy here, and they will flourish and even bloom throughout the seasons.

The most important thing in life is to choose a career, but we often decide it by "accident".

Pride can overwhelm all sadness. Either a person hides his own patheticness; then if he reveals his own patheticness, he will know his pathetic and glorified self. Pride overwhelms and sweeps away all wretchedness. It’s a surprising monster and a glaring aberration.

Belief and superstition are completely different things.

Faith is different from superstition. If you firmly believe in faith or even become superstitious, it is tantamount to destroying faith.

Vanity is so firmly established in people's hearts that everyone wants to be envied; even me who writes this sentence and you who read this sentence are no exception.

Memory is necessary for all mental work.