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All the trouble in the world is due to the fact that man cannot sit still in a room.

Blaise Pascal

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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Existence Faith God Heart Reason
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
Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary.
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Extraordinary Greatness Ordinary Wisdom
Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.
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Accomplishment Character Kindness
Fear not, provided you fear; but if you fear not, then fear.
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Fear Yourself
Having been unable to strengthen justice, we have justified strength.
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Justice Strength
If you do not love too much, you do not love enough.
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Enough Love Yourself
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
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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Establishment Love Spiritual Time Truth
Faith is a gift of God.
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Faith Gift God
Mankind suffers from two excesses: to exclude reason, and to live by nothing but reason.
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Live Man Reason Suffering
We never love a person, but only qualities.
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Deep Love Person Quality
Plurality which is not reduced to unity is confusion; unity which does not depend on plurality is tyranny.
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Confusion Unity
Do you wish people to think well of you? Don’t speak well of yourself.
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Humble Humility People Praise Thinking
We must learn our limits. We are all something, but none of us are everything.
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Human Limitation Wisdom
Evil is easy, and has infinite forms.
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Easy Evil Infinite

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