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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.

Blaise Pascal

If a man is not made for God, why is he happy only in God?
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Faith God Happiness Men
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
People almost invariably arrive at their beliefs not on the basis of proof but on the basis of what they find attractive.
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Attraction Belief People
All our dignity lies in our thoughts.
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Dignity Lying Thinking
What a vast difference there is between knowing God and loving Him.
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Difference God Himself Love
Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too; this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and sees distinctly what it loves.
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Greatness Inspirational Love Passion
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
We never love a person, but only qualities.
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Deep Love Person Quality
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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Establishment Love Spiritual Time Truth
Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary.
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Extraordinary Greatness Ordinary Wisdom
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
Do you wish people to think well of you? Don’t speak well of yourself.
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Humble Humility People Praise Thinking
Faith is a sounder guide than reason. Reason can only go so far, but faith has no limits.
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Faith Limitation Reason
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
Mutual cheating is the foundation of society.
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Cheat Foundation
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

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