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Wisdom leads us back to childhood.

Blaise Pascal

Distraction is the only thing that consoles us for our miseries. Yet it is itself the greatest of our miseries.
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Greatness Misery Ourselves
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
Faith is different from proof; the latter is human, the former is a Gift from God.
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Different Faith Gift God Human
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
Lord, help me to do great things as though they were little, since I do them with your power; And little things as though they were great, since I do them in your name!
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Greatness Myself Power Yourself
Mankind suffers from two excesses: to exclude reason, and to live by nothing but reason.
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Live Man Reason Suffering
Evil is easy, and has infinite forms.
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Easy Evil Infinite
Great and small suffer the same mishaps.
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Greatness Small Suffering
Man is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness from which he emerges and the infinity in which he is engulfed.
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Inspirational Men Vision
All the maxims have been written. It only remains to put them into practice.
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Practice Writing
There is a God-shaped vacuum in every heart.
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God Heart Spiritual
The entire ocean is affected by a single pebble.
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Affection Ocean Pebble
We are not satisfied with real life; we want to live some imaginary life in the eyes of other people and to seem different from what we actually are.
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Eyes People Reality Satisfaction
Man’s sensitivity to the little things and insensitivity to the greatest are the signs of a strange disorder.
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Greatness Men Strange
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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Lying Men Thinking
If a man is not made for God, why is he happy only in God?
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Faith God Happiness Men

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