We are not satisfied with real life; we want to live some imaginary life in the eyes of other people and to seem different from what we actually are.
BLAISE PASCALHappiness can be found neither in ourselves nor in external things, but in God and in ourselves as united to him.
More Blaise Pascal Quotes
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The more intelligent a man is, the more originality he discovers in others.
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Man is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness from which he emerges and the infinity in which he is engulfed.
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We should seek the truth without hesitation; and, if we refuse it, we show that we value the esteem of men more than the search for truth.
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Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too; this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and sees distinctly what it loves.
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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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Love has reasons which reason cannot understand.
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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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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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Lord, help me to do great things as though they were little, since I do them with your power; And little things as though they were great, since I do them in your name!
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Man is obviously made for thinking. Therein lies all his dignity and his merit; and his whole duty is to think as he ought.
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Nothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest, without a passion, without business, without entertainment, without care.
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If you do not love too much, you do not love enough.
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The entire ocean is affected by a single pebble.
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I rather live as if God exists to find out that He doesn’t than live as if he doesn’t exist to find out He does.
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Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.
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