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Plurality which is not reduced to unity is confusion; unity which does not depend on plurality is tyranny.

Blaise Pascal

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
Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it.
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Establishment Love Spiritual Time Truth
In difficult times carry something beautiful in your heart.
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Beautiful Difficult Hard Time Heart Time
We never love a person, but only qualities.
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Deep Love Person Quality
Faith is a gift of God.
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Faith Gift God
When intuition and logic agree, you are always right.
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Logic Mathematics Right
The supreme function of reason is to show man that some things are beyond reason.
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Beyond Logic Men Reason
Great and small suffer the same mishaps.
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Greatness Small Suffering
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
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
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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Existence Faith God Heart Reason
Having been unable to strengthen justice, we have justified strength.
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Justice Strength
Mankind suffers from two excesses: to exclude reason, and to live by nothing but reason.
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Live Man Reason Suffering
Everyone, without exception, is searching for happiness.
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Exception Happiness Search
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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Attraction Belief People
Faith is different from proof; the latter is human, the former is a Gift from God.
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Different Faith Gift God Human

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