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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

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
Love knows no limit to its endurance, no end to its trust, no fading of its hope; it can outlast anything. Love still stands when all else has fallen.
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Endurance Fade Limitation
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
Do you wish people to think well of you? Don’t speak well of yourself.
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Humble Humility People Praise Thinking
Man’s greatness lies in his power of thought.
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Greatness Lying Man Power
And is it not obvious that, just as it is a crime to disturb the peace when truth reigns, it is also a crime to remain at peace when the truth is being destroyed?
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Crime Destroy Peace Truth
In difficult times carry something beautiful in your heart.
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Beautiful Difficult Hard Time Heart Time
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
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
Great and small suffer the same mishaps.
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Greatness Small Suffering
All the maxims have been written. It only remains to put them into practice.
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Practice Writing
Don’t try to add more years to your life. Better add more life to your years.
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Death Life Suicide
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
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
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

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