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.
BLAISE PASCALHaving been unable to strengthen justice, we have justified strength.
More Blaise Pascal Quotes
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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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If I had more time I would write a shorter letter.
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If you want to be a real seeker of truth, you need to, at least once in your lifetime, doubt in, as much as it’s possible, in everything.
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Faith is different from proof; the latter is human, the former is a Gift from God.
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Kind words do not cost much. They never blister the tongue or lips. They make other people good-natured. They also produce their own image on men’s souls, and a beautiful image it is.
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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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Man is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness from which he emerges and the infinity in which he is engulfed.
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Distraction is the only thing that consoles us for our miseries. Yet it is itself the greatest of our miseries.
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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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Faith is a gift of God.
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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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Silence. All human unhappiness comes from not knowing how to stay quietly in a room.
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Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.
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Nothing gives rest but the sincere search for truth.
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Imagination decides everything.
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Great and small suffer the same mishaps.
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Justice without force is powerless; force without justice is tyrannical.
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Wisdom leads us back to childhood.
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There is a God shaped vacuum in the heart of every man which cannot be filled by any created thing, but only by God, the Creator, made known through Jesus.
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Mutual cheating is the foundation of society.
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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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All of our reasoning ends in surrender to feeling.
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There is enough light for those who only desire to see, and enough obscurity for those who have a contrary disposition.
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What a vast difference there is between knowing God and loving Him.
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We never love a person, but only qualities.
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Having been unable to strengthen justice, we have justified strength.
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