If I had more time I would write a shorter letter.
BLAISE PASCALNothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest, without a passion, without business, without entertainment, without care.
More Blaise Pascal Quotes
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When intuition and logic agree, you are always right.
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The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
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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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All men’s miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.
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Imagination decides everything.
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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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Great and small suffer the same mishaps.
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Don’t try to add more years to your life. Better add more life to your years.
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Justice without force is powerless; force without justice is tyrannical.
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The strength of a man’s virtue should not be measured by his special exertions, but by his habitual acts.
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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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Man’s sensitivity to the little things and insensitivity to the greatest are the signs of a strange disorder.
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The more intelligent a man is, the more originality he discovers in others.
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In difficult times carry something beautiful in your heart.
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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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All our dignity lies in our thoughts.
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Happiness is neither within us, nor without us. It is in the union of ourselves with God.
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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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We never love a person, but only qualities.
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Nothing gives rest but the sincere search for truth.
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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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There is a God shaped vacuum in the heart of every man which cannot be filled by any created thing, but only by God, the Creator, made known through Jesus.
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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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Wisdom leads us back to childhood.
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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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