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Wisdom leads us back to childhood.

Blaise Pascal

Most of man’s trouble comes from his inability to be still.
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Ability Men Trouble
Distraction is the only thing that consoles us for our miseries. Yet it is itself the greatest of our miseries.
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Greatness Misery Ourselves
It is the heart which perceives God and not the reason. That is what faith is: God perceived by the heart, not by the reason.
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Existence Faith God Heart Reason
People almost invariably arrive at their beliefs not on the basis of proof but on the basis of what they find attractive.
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Attraction Belief People
The strength of a man’s virtue should not be measured by his special exertions, but by his habitual acts.
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Act Inspirational Strength Wisdom
We must learn our limits. We are all something, but none of us are everything.
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Human Limitation Wisdom
The more intelligent a man is, the more originality he discovers in others.
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Discover Intelligence Men Reality
In difficult times carry something beautiful in your heart.
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Beautiful Difficult Hard Time Heart Time
All the trouble in the world is due to the fact that man cannot sit still in a room.
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Men Trouble World
Happiness can be found neither in ourselves nor in external things, but in God and in ourselves as united to him.
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God Happiness Ourselves
Mankind suffers from two excesses: to exclude reason, and to live by nothing but reason.
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Live Man Reason Suffering
Without Jesus Christ man must be in vice and misery with Jesus Christ man is free from vice and misery in Him is all our virtue and all our happiness. Apart from Him there is but vice, misery, darkness, death, despair.
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Darkness Death Men Vice Victory
The supreme function of reason is to show man that some things are beyond reason.
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Beyond Logic Men Reason
All the maxims have been written. It only remains to put them into practice.
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Practice Writing
Plurality which is not reduced to unity is confusion; unity which does not depend on plurality is tyranny.
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Confusion Unity
Man’s sensitivity to the little things and insensitivity to the greatest are the signs of a strange disorder.
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Greatness Men Strange

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