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Man is obviously made for thinking. Therein lies all his dignity and his merit; and his whole duty is to think as he ought.

Blaise Pascal

The strength of a man’s virtue should not be measured by his special exertions, but by his habitual acts.
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Act Inspirational Strength Wisdom
When intuition and logic agree, you are always right.
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Logic Mathematics Right
Having been unable to strengthen justice, we have justified strength.
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Justice Strength
Good deeds, when concealed, are the most admirable.
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Admire Conceal Deed Goodness
Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.
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Evil Inspirational Religious Sad
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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Act Life Men Possible Spiritual Thinking
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
All men’s miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.
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Inspirational Man Misery Peace
Without Jesus Christ man must be in vice and misery with Jesus Christ man is free from vice and misery in Him is all our virtue and all our happiness. Apart from Him there is but vice, misery, darkness, death, despair.
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Darkness Death Men Vice Victory
Love knows no limit to its endurance, no end to its trust, no fading of its hope; it can outlast anything. Love still stands when all else has fallen.
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Endurance Fade Limitation
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
Justice without force is powerless; force without justice is tyrannical.
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Force Justice Power Strength
Evil is easy, and has infinite forms.
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Easy Evil Infinite
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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Men Seek Truth Value
In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don’t.
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Believe Faith Life Light
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

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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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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