How Pascal would have organized it, and how filled in the gaps, must remain a matter of conjecture. A few of the better-known lines may suggest the flavor. I lay it down as a fact that if all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends left in the world. Man is but a reed, the weakest thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed. Judge of all things, feeble earthworm, depository of truth, sink of uncertainty and error, the glory and the shame of the universe.
Men never do evil so completely or cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.
Man needs a Saviour if the world is to make sense. Part Two argues that we have sound reasons for believing that a Saviour is in fact to be had for the asking. If it is false, then you stand to lose only a finite amount of well-being by accepting it. Therefore the odds make deciding to become a Christian the sensible move. This has been attacked with great bitterness and vigor.