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The strength of a man’s virtue should not be measured by his special exertions, but by his habitual acts.

Blaise Pascal

Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary.
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Extraordinary Greatness Ordinary Wisdom
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
Mankind suffers from two excesses: to exclude reason, and to live by nothing but reason.
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Live Man Reason Suffering
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
The entire ocean is affected by a single pebble.
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Affection Ocean Pebble
All the trouble in the world is due to the fact that man cannot sit still in a room.
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Men Trouble World
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 want others to have a good opinion of you, say nothing.
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Opinion Talk Yourself
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
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
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
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
Man’s greatness lies in his power of thought.
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Greatness Lying Man Power
How hollow is the heart of man, and how full of excrement!
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Heart Hollow Men
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
Nothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest, without a passion, without business, without entertainment, without care.
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Business Men Passion Tolerance

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