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 PASCALWe 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.
More Blaise Pascal Quotes
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The entire ocean is affected by a single pebble.
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The strength of a man’s virtue should not be measured by his special exertions, but by his habitual acts.
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If you want others to have a good opinion of you, say nothing.
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Evil is easy, and has infinite forms.
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Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.
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Human life is thus only an endless illusion. Men deceive and flatter each other. No one speaks of us in our presence as he does when we are gone. Society is based on mutual hypocrisy.
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Great and small suffer the same mishaps.
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Nothing gives rest but the sincere search for truth.
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We must learn our limits. We are all something, but none of us are everything.
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If a man is not made for God, why is he happy only in God?
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Faith is a gift of God.
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Do you wish people to think well of you? Don’t speak well of yourself.
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Having been unable to strengthen justice, we have justified strength.
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The supreme function of reason is to show man that some things are beyond reason.
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Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary.
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