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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

The supreme function of reason is to show man that some things are beyond reason.
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Beyond Logic Men Reason
Don’t try to add more years to your life. Better add more life to your years.
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Death Life Suicide
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
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
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
We never love a person, but only qualities.
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Deep Love Person Quality
Mutual cheating is the foundation of society.
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Cheat Foundation
Having been unable to strengthen justice, we have justified strength.
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Justice Strength
There are only two kinds of men: the righteous who think they are sinners and the sinners who think they are righteous.
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Deep Human Live Men Sin Thinking
Justice without force is powerless; force without justice is tyrannical.
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Force Justice Power Strength
I rather live as if God exists to find out that He doesn’t than live as if he doesn’t exist to find out He does.
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Existence God Himself Live Myself
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
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
People almost invariably arrive at their beliefs not on the basis of proof but on the basis of what they find attractive.
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Attraction Belief People
What a vast difference there is between knowing God and loving Him.
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Difference God Himself Love
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
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
Happiness is neither within us, nor without us. It is in the union of ourselves with God.
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God Happiness Ourselves Spiritual
All the maxims have been written. It only remains to put them into practice.
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Practice Writing
If you want to be a real seeker of truth, you need to, at least once in your lifetime, doubt in, as much as it’s possible, in everything.
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Doubt Life Need Possible Reality
How hollow is the heart of man, and how full of excrement!
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Heart Hollow Men
It’s not those who write the laws that have the greatest impact on society. It’s those who write the songs.
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Law Song Worth Writing
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
If you want others to have a good opinion of you, say nothing.
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Opinion Talk Yourself
Silence. All human unhappiness comes from not knowing how to stay quietly in a room.
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Happiness Human Quiet Silence
Plurality which is not reduced to unity is confusion; unity which does not depend on plurality is tyranny.
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Confusion Unity
Wisdom leads us back to childhood.
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Children One Liner Way Wisdom

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