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Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.

Blaise Pascal

Distraction is the only thing that consoles us for our miseries. Yet it is itself the greatest of our miseries.
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Greatness Misery Ourselves
Justice without force is powerless; force without justice is tyrannical.
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Force Justice Power Strength
Man is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness from which he emerges and the infinity in which he is engulfed.
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Inspirational Men Vision
Human beings must be known to be loved; but Divine beings must be loved to be known.
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Divine Human Love Religion
If you do not love too much, you do not love enough.
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Enough Love Yourself
Man’s sensitivity to the little things and insensitivity to the greatest are the signs of a strange disorder.
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Greatness Men Strange
The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
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Heart Inspirational Life Love Reason
It’s not those who write the laws that have the greatest impact on society. It’s those who write the songs.
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Law Song Worth Writing
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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Deceive Human Life Men Ourselves Presence
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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Beautiful Hurt Kindness Lips Nature
All of our reasoning ends in surrender to feeling.
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Alone Feeling Let Go Reason
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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Eyes People Reality Satisfaction
The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of, We know the truth not only by the reason, but by the heart.
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Heart Reason Truth
Evil is easy, and has infinite forms.
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Easy Evil Infinite
Fear not, provided you fear; but if you fear not, then fear.
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Fear Yourself
Imagination decides everything.
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Imagination Inspirational One Liner
Everyone, without exception, is searching for happiness.
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Exception Happiness Search
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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Existence God Himself Live Myself
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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God Happiness Ourselves
Curiosity is only vanity. We usually only want to know something so that we can talk about it.
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Curiosity Pride Talk Vanity
We never love a person, but only qualities.
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Deep Love Person Quality
Faith is different from proof; the latter is human, the former is a Gift from God.
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Different Faith Gift God Human
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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Greatness Myself Power Yourself
Nothing gives rest but the sincere search for truth.
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Search Sincere Spirituality Vision
There is a God-shaped vacuum in every heart.
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God Heart Spiritual
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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Greatness Inspirational Love Passion
I bring you the gift of these four words: I believe in you.
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Believe Gift Myself

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