Distraction is the only thing that consoles us for our miseries. Yet it is itself the greatest of our miseries.
BLAISE PASCALWisdom leads us back to childhood.
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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Faith is a gift of God.
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If you do not love too much, you do not love enough.
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Plurality which is not reduced to unity is confusion; unity which does not depend on plurality is tyranny.
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Justice without force is powerless; force without justice is tyrannical.
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When intuition and logic agree, you are always right.
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Imagination decides everything.
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Silence. All human unhappiness comes from not knowing how to stay quietly in a room.
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Evil is easy, and has infinite forms.
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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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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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Wisdom leads us back to childhood.
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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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Happiness can be found neither in ourselves nor in external things, but in God and in ourselves as united to him.
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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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