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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

Mankind suffers from two excesses: to exclude reason, and to live by nothing but reason.
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Live Man Reason Suffering
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
All the maxims have been written. It only remains to put them into practice.
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Practice 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
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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God Men Nature Religion Worth
There is enough light for those who only desire to see, and enough obscurity for those who have a contrary disposition.
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Desire Enough Light See
Plurality which is not reduced to unity is confusion; unity which does not depend on plurality is tyranny.
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Confusion Unity
Man’s greatness lies in his power of thought.
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Greatness Lying Man Power
The strength of a man’s virtue should not be measured by his special exertions, but by his habitual acts.
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Act Inspirational Strength Wisdom
Faith is a sounder guide than reason. Reason can only go so far, but faith has no limits.
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Faith Limitation Reason
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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Lying Men Thinking
Evil is easy, and has infinite forms.
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Easy Evil Infinite
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
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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Act Life Men Possible Spiritual Thinking
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 our dignity lies in our thoughts.
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Dignity Lying Thinking

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