Plurality which is not reduced to unity is confusion; unity which does not depend on plurality is tyranny.
BLAISE PASCALMutual cheating is the foundation of society.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Man is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness from which he emerges and the infinity in which he is engulfed.
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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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When intuition and logic agree, you are always right.
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The entire ocean is affected by a single pebble.
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All our dignity lies in our thoughts.
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Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary.
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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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Good deeds, when concealed, are the most admirable.
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The supreme function of reason is to show man that some things are beyond reason.
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