Happiness can be found neither in ourselves nor in external things, but in God and in ourselves as united to him.
BLAISE PASCALMan is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness from which he emerges and the infinity in which he is engulfed.
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Fear not, provided you fear; but if you fear not, then fear.
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What a vast difference there is between knowing God and loving Him.
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Great and small suffer the same mishaps.
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We like to be deceived.
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Faith is a gift of God.
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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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If a man is not made for God, why is he happy only in God?
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Faith is different from proof; the latter is human, the former is a Gift from God.
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Evil is easy, and has infinite forms.
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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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Silence. All human unhappiness comes from not knowing how to stay quietly in a room.
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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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All of our reasoning ends in surrender to feeling.
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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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All our dignity lies in our thoughts.
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There is a God-shaped vacuum in every heart.
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Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.
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Everyone, without exception, is searching for happiness.
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Mutual cheating is the foundation of society.
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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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If you want others to have a good opinion of you, say nothing.
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The more I see of Mankind, the more I prefer my dog.
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Having been unable to strengthen justice, we have justified strength.
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Imagination decides everything.
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Mankind suffers from two excesses: to exclude reason, and to live by nothing but reason.
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We never love a person, but only qualities.
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