Good deeds, when concealed, are the most admirable.
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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Mutual cheating is the foundation of society.
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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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Once your soul has been enlarged by a truth, it can never return to its original size.
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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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Man is obviously made for thinking. Therein lies all his dignity and his merit; and his whole duty is to think as he ought.
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The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
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When intuition and logic agree, you are always right.
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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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All men’s miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.
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Silence. All human unhappiness comes from not knowing how to stay quietly in a room.
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If I had more time I would write a shorter letter.
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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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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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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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Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too; this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and sees distinctly what it loves.
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Having been unable to strengthen justice, we have justified strength.
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All our dignity lies in our thoughts.
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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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All of our reasoning ends in surrender to feeling.
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We must learn our limits. We are all something, but none of us are everything.
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Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary.
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If you want to be a real seeker of truth, you need to, at least once in your lifetime, doubt in, as much as it’s possible, in everything.
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Love has reasons which reason cannot understand.
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The more I see of Mankind, the more I prefer my dog.
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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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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.
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