Do you wish people to think well of you? Don’t speak well of yourself.
BLAISE PASCALMankind suffers from two excesses: to exclude reason, and to live by nothing but reason.
More Blaise Pascal Quotes
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When intuition and logic agree, you are always right.
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The supreme function of reason is to show man that some things are beyond reason.
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Mutual cheating is the foundation of society.
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Fear not, provided you fear; but if you fear not, then fear.
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Nothing gives rest but the sincere search for truth.
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Man’s sensitivity to the little things and insensitivity to the greatest are the signs of a strange disorder.
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How hollow is the heart of man, and how full of excrement!
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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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If a man is not made for God, why is he happy only in God?
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Having been unable to strengthen justice, we have justified strength.
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Love has reasons which reason cannot understand.
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Faith is different from proof; the latter is human, the former is a Gift from God.
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All men’s miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.
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The entire ocean is affected by a single pebble.
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The more I see of Mankind, the more I prefer my dog.
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Imagination decides everything.
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Love knows no limit to its endurance, no end to its trust, no fading of its hope; it can outlast anything. Love still stands when all else has fallen.
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If I had more time I would write a shorter letter.
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Plurality which is not reduced to unity is confusion; unity which does not depend on plurality is tyranny.
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Evil is easy, and has infinite forms.
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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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The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
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Faith is a gift of God.
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Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.
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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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Good deeds, when concealed, are the most admirable.
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