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The more intelligent a man is, the more originality he discovers in others.

Blaise Pascal

All the maxims have been written. It only remains to put them into practice.
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Practice Writing
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
The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
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Heart Inspirational Life Love Reason
Happiness can be found neither in ourselves nor in external things, but in God and in ourselves as united to him.
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God Happiness Ourselves
Mankind suffers from two excesses: to exclude reason, and to live by nothing but reason.
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Live Man Reason Suffering
Faith is a gift of God.
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Faith Gift God
Evil is easy, and has infinite forms.
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Easy Evil Infinite
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
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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Existence God Himself Live Myself
If I had more time I would write a shorter letter.
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Inspirational Letter Writing
Faith is a sounder guide than reason. Reason can only go so far, but faith has no limits.
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Faith Limitation Reason
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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Men Seek Truth Value
The entire ocean is affected by a single pebble.
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Affection Ocean Pebble
Curiosity is only vanity. We usually only want to know something so that we can talk about it.
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Curiosity Pride Talk Vanity
Mutual cheating is the foundation of society.
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Cheat Foundation
The Christian religion teaches me two points-that there is a God whom men can know, and that their nature is so corrupt that they are unworthy of Him.
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God Men Nature Religion Worth

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