Curiosity is only vanity. We usually only want to know something so that we can talk about it.
BLAISE PASCALHappiness is neither within us, nor without us. It is in the union of ourselves with God.
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All men’s miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.
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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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If you do not love too much, you do not love enough.
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Wisdom leads us back to childhood.
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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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There is a God-shaped vacuum in every heart.
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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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Imagination decides everything.
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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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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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Evil is easy, and has infinite forms.
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Faith is a gift of God.
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The supreme function of reason is to show man that some things are beyond reason.
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What a vast difference there is between knowing God and loving Him.
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