Do you wish people to think well of you? Don't say anything.

Voulez-vous qu’on croie du bien de vous? n’en dites pas.

Blaise Pascal

Pensées

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Topic

Silence is golden Staying quiet Reputation

Author

Blaise Pascal

Source

Pensées

Medium

Epigram

Genre

Philosophical literature

Statement Type

Advice

Language

French

Time

1662 1660s 17th century

Era

Age of Enlightenment

Occupation

Philosopher Writer

From

France Europe

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Original Citation

Pascal, Blaise. Pensées. 1662, no. 44.

Current Citation

Pascal, Blaise. Pensées. Translated by A. J. Krailsheimer. Penguin, 1995, no. 44.

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