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Blaise Pascal

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
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
Fear not, provided you fear; but if you fear not, then fear.
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Fear Yourself
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
Do you wish people to think well of you? Don’t speak well of yourself.
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Humble Humility People Praise Thinking
Don’t try to add more years to your life. Better add more life to your years.
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Death Life Suicide
Plurality which is not reduced to unity is confusion; unity which does not depend on plurality is tyranny.
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Confusion Unity
All the maxims have been written. It only remains to put them into practice.
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Practice Writing
Great and small suffer the same mishaps.
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Greatness Small Suffering
Most of man’s trouble comes from his inability to be still.
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Ability Men Trouble
I bring you the gift of these four words: I believe in you.
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Believe Gift Myself
I rather live as if God exists to find out that He doesn’t than live as if he doesn’t exist to find out He does.
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Existence God Himself Live Myself
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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Doubt Life Need Possible Reality
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
Silence. All human unhappiness comes from not knowing how to stay quietly in a room.
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Happiness Human Quiet Silence
Mankind suffers from two excesses: to exclude reason, and to live by nothing but reason.
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Live Man Reason Suffering

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