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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.

Blaise Pascal

Nothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest, without a passion, without business, without entertainment, without care.
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Business Men Passion Tolerance
We never love a person, but only qualities.
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Deep Love Person Quality
Having been unable to strengthen justice, we have justified strength.
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Justice Strength
The strength of a man’s virtue should not be measured by his special exertions, but by his habitual acts.
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Act Inspirational Strength Wisdom
Mankind suffers from two excesses: to exclude reason, and to live by nothing but reason.
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Live Man Reason Suffering
There is a God-shaped vacuum in every heart.
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God Heart Spiritual
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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Act Life Men Possible Spiritual Thinking
Man is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness from which he emerges and the infinity in which he is engulfed.
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Inspirational Men Vision
All the maxims have been written. It only remains to put them into practice.
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Practice Writing
Man’s sensitivity to the little things and insensitivity to the greatest are the signs of a strange disorder.
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Greatness Men Strange
The entire ocean is affected by a single pebble.
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Affection Ocean Pebble
Love has reasons which reason cannot understand.
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Love Reason Understand
Distraction is the only thing that consoles us for our miseries. Yet it is itself the greatest of our miseries.
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Greatness Misery Ourselves
Happiness is neither within us, nor without us. It is in the union of ourselves with God.
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God Happiness Ourselves Spiritual
Great and small suffer the same mishaps.
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Greatness Small Suffering
We must learn our limits. We are all something, but none of us are everything.
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Human Limitation Wisdom

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