We never love a person, but only qualities.
BLAISE PASCALLord, 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!
More Blaise Pascal Quotes
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If you want others to have a good opinion of you, say nothing.
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How hollow is the heart of man, and how full of excrement!
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If you do not love too much, you do not love enough.
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Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.
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Most of man’s trouble comes from his inability to be still.
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We must learn our limits. We are all something, but none of us are everything.
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Wisdom leads us back to childhood.
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All men’s miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.
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Having been unable to strengthen justice, we have justified strength.
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The supreme function of reason is to show man that some things are beyond reason.
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There is a God-shaped vacuum in every heart.
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If a man is not made for God, why is he happy only in God?
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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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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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If I had more time I would write a shorter letter.
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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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Evil is easy, and has infinite forms.
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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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Nothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest, without a passion, without business, without entertainment, without care.
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The Christian religion teaches me two points-that there is a God whom men can know, and that their nature is so corrupt that they are unworthy of Him.
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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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All the maxims have been written. It only remains to put them into practice.
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It’s not those who write the laws that have the greatest impact on society. It’s those who write the songs.
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Curiosity is only vanity. We usually only want to know something so that we can talk about it.
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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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Faith is a sounder guide than reason. Reason can only go so far, but faith has no limits.
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