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There is enough light for those who only desire to see, and enough obscurity for those who have a contrary disposition.

Blaise Pascal

Kind words do not cost much. They never blister the tongue or lips. They make other people good-natured. They also produce their own image on men’s souls, and a beautiful image it is.
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Beautiful Hurt Kindness Lips Nature
It is the heart which perceives God and not the reason. That is what faith is: God perceived by the heart, not by the reason.
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Existence Faith God Heart Reason
Justice without force is powerless; force without justice is tyrannical.
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Force Justice Power Strength
There are only two kinds of men: the righteous who think they are sinners and the sinners who think they are righteous.
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Deep Human Live Men Sin Thinking
All of our reasoning ends in surrender to feeling.
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Alone Feeling Let Go Reason
All our dignity lies in our thoughts.
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Dignity Lying Thinking
Fear not, provided you fear; but if you fear not, then fear.
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Fear Yourself
Faith is a gift of God.
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Faith Gift God
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 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
Happiness is neither within us, nor without us. It is in the union of ourselves with God.
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God Happiness Ourselves Spiritual
The supreme function of reason is to show man that some things are beyond reason.
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Beyond Logic Men Reason
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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Believe God Life Philosophy Spiritual
The entire ocean is affected by a single pebble.
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Affection Ocean Pebble
How hollow is the heart of man, and how full of excrement!
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Heart Hollow Men
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

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