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.
BLAISE PASCALPlurality which is not reduced to unity is confusion; unity which does not depend on plurality is tyranny.
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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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Without Jesus Christ man must be in vice and misery with Jesus Christ man is free from vice and misery in Him is all our virtue and all our happiness. Apart from Him there is but vice, misery, darkness, death, despair.
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All of our reasoning ends in surrender to feeling.
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All the maxims have been written. It only remains to put them into practice.
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There is a God-shaped vacuum in every heart.
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If you want others to have a good opinion of you, say nothing.
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We must learn our limits. We are all something, but none of us are everything.
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Man is obviously made for thinking. Therein lies all his dignity and his merit; and his whole duty is to think as he ought.
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The strength of a man’s virtue should not be measured by his special exertions, but by his habitual acts.
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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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Wisdom leads us back to childhood.
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Great and small suffer the same mishaps.
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The more I see of Mankind, the more I prefer my dog.
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Happiness is neither within us, nor without us. It is in the union of ourselves with God.
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Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary.
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