Distraction is the only thing that consoles us for our miseries. Yet it is itself the greatest of our miseries.
BLAISE PASCALEveryone, without exception, is searching for happiness.
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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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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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We never love a person, but only qualities.
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Great and small suffer the same mishaps.
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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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We like to be deceived.
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All our dignity lies in our thoughts.
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Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary.
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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 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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Don’t try to add more years to your life. Better add more life to your years.
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Everyone, without exception, is searching for happiness.
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If you want to be a real seeker of truth, you need to, at least once in your lifetime, doubt in, as much as it’s possible, in everything.
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Silence. All human unhappiness comes from not knowing how to stay quietly in a room.
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In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don’t.
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