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.
BLAISE PASCALKind 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.
More Blaise Pascal Quotes
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The Christian religion teaches me two points-that there is a God whom men can know, and that their nature is so corrupt that they are unworthy of Him.
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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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Good deeds, when concealed, are the most admirable.
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We are not satisfied with real life; we want to live some imaginary life in the eyes of other people and to seem different from what we actually are.
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The entire ocean is affected by a single pebble.
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Wisdom leads us back to childhood.
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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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We must learn our limits. We are all something, but none of us are everything.
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All the trouble in the world is due to the fact that man cannot sit still in a room.
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Evil is easy, and has infinite forms.
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Do you wish people to think well of you? Don’t speak well of yourself.
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Faith is a sounder guide than reason. Reason can only go so far, but faith has no limits.
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Happiness can be found neither in ourselves nor in external things, but in God and in ourselves as united to him.
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When intuition and logic agree, you are always right.
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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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