Quotes from authors born in 1623
When we see a natural style, we are astonished and charmed; for we expected to see an author, and we find a person.
Blaise Pascal
Noble deeds that are concealed are most esteemed.
Blaise Pascal
Can anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of a river and his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have not quarrelled with him?
Blaise Pascal
In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don't.
Blaise Pascal
Indeed I did not stand as a beggar at the Parliament door, for I never was at the Parliament-House, nor stood I ever at the door as I do know or can remember; not as a petitioner I am sure.
Margaret Cavendish
Authors born in 1623

Jerome Myers
John Adair
Albert Schweitzer
Howard Carter
Tyrese Gibson
Ani DiFranco
Alonzo Church
Carl Yastrzemski