Good deeds, when concealed, are the most admirable.
BLAISE PASCALSilence. All human unhappiness comes from not knowing how to stay quietly in a room.
More Blaise Pascal Quotes
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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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Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary.
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Do you wish people to think well of you? Don’t speak well of yourself.
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If a man is not made for God, why is he happy only in God?
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How hollow is the heart of man, and how full of excrement!
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If I believe in God and life after death and you do not, and if there is no God, we both lose when we die. However, if there is a God, you still lose and I gain everything.
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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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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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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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Silence. All human unhappiness comes from not knowing how to stay quietly in a room.
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If you want others to have a good opinion of you, say nothing.
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When intuition and logic agree, you are always right.
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Having been unable to strengthen justice, we have justified strength.
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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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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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Human beings must be known to be loved; but Divine beings must be loved to be known.
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In difficult times carry something beautiful in your heart.
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Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.
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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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Mutual cheating is the foundation of society.
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Mankind suffers from two excesses: to exclude reason, and to live by nothing but reason.
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All the maxims have been written. It only remains to put them into practice.
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If I had more time I would write a shorter letter.
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We must learn our limits. We are all something, but none of us are everything.
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Distraction is the only thing that consoles us for our miseries. Yet it is itself the greatest of our miseries.
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Fear not, provided you fear; but if you fear not, then fear.
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