It’s not those who write the laws that have the greatest impact on society. It’s those who write the songs.
BLAISE PASCALHuman 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.
More Blaise Pascal Quotes
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Wisdom leads us back to childhood.
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In difficult times carry something beautiful in your heart.
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If I had more time I would write a shorter letter.
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Silence. All human unhappiness comes from not knowing how to stay quietly in a room.
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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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The more intelligent a man is, the more originality he discovers in others.
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The supreme function of reason is to show man that some things are beyond reason.
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Curiosity is only vanity. We usually only want to know something so that we can talk about it.
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Evil is easy, and has infinite forms.
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Do you wish people to think well of you? Don’t speak well of yourself.
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Love knows no limit to its endurance, no end to its trust, no fading of its hope; it can outlast anything. Love still stands when all else has fallen.
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Great and small suffer the same mishaps.
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There is a God-shaped vacuum in every heart.
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Faith is different from proof; the latter is human, the former is a Gift from God.
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All the trouble in the world is due to the fact that man cannot sit still in a room.
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Most of man’s trouble comes from his inability to be still.
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Faith is a sounder guide than reason. Reason can only go so far, but faith has no limits.
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Faith is a gift of God.
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Nothing gives rest but the sincere search for truth.
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And is it not obvious that, just as it is a crime to disturb the peace when truth reigns, it is also a crime to remain at peace when the truth is being destroyed?
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Mutual cheating is the foundation of society.
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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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If you do not love too much, you do not love enough.
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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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Good deeds, when concealed, are the most admirable.
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Human beings must be known to be loved; but Divine beings must be loved to be known.
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