All our dignity lies in our thoughts.
BLAISE PASCALWisdom leads us back to childhood.
More Blaise Pascal Quotes
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Distraction is the only thing that consoles us for our miseries. Yet it is itself the greatest of our miseries.
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Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary.
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There is enough light for those who only desire to see, and enough obscurity for those who have a contrary disposition.
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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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It’s not those who write the laws that have the greatest impact on society. It’s those who write the songs.
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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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If I believe in God and life after death and you do not, and if there is no God, we both lose when we die. However, if there is a God, you still lose and I gain everything.
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Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.
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Great and small suffer the same mishaps.
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Faith is a sounder guide than reason. Reason can only go so far, but faith has no limits.
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Wisdom leads us back to childhood.
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Kind words do not cost much. They never blister the tongue or lips. They make other people good-natured. They also produce their own image on men’s souls, and a beautiful image it is.
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Fear not, provided you fear; but if you fear not, then fear.
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Man’s greatness lies in his power of thought.
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One-half of the ills of life come because men are unwilling to sit down quietly for thirty minutes to think through all the possible consequences of their acts.
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