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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.

Blaise Pascal

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
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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Endurance Fade Limitation
Human beings must be known to be loved; but Divine beings must be loved to be known.
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Divine Human Love Religion
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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Deceive Human Life Men Ourselves Presence
Once your soul has been enlarged by a truth, it can never return to its original size.
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Investment Soul Truth Yourself
Plurality which is not reduced to unity is confusion; unity which does not depend on plurality is tyranny.
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Confusion Unity
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
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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Darkness Death Men Vice Victory
Mutual cheating is the foundation of society.
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Cheat Foundation
If a man is not made for God, why is he happy only in God?
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Faith God Happiness Men
The more intelligent a man is, the more originality he discovers in others.
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Discover Intelligence Men Reality
Great and small suffer the same mishaps.
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Greatness Small Suffering
Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary.
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Extraordinary Greatness Ordinary Wisdom
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
If I had more time I would write a shorter letter.
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Inspirational Letter Writing
If you do not love too much, you do not love enough.
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Enough Love Yourself

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