We like to be deceived.
BLAISE PASCALDistraction is the only thing that consoles us for our miseries. Yet it is itself the greatest of our miseries.
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Most of man’s trouble comes from his inability to be still.
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Fear not, provided you fear; but if you fear not, then fear.
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The strength of a man’s virtue should not be measured by his special exertions, but by his habitual acts.
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Distraction is the only thing that consoles us for our miseries. Yet it is itself the greatest of our miseries.
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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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The entire ocean is affected by a single pebble.
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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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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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The supreme function of reason is to show man that some things are beyond reason.
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Silence. All human unhappiness comes from not knowing how to stay quietly in a room.
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There is a God shaped vacuum in the heart of every man which cannot be filled by any created thing, but only by God, the Creator, made known through Jesus.
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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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If you do not love too much, you do not love enough.
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Faith is a gift of God.
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Wisdom leads us back to childhood.
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We never love a person, but only qualities.
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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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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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The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
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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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The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of, We know the truth not only by the reason, but by the heart.
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If you want others to have a good opinion of you, say nothing.
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Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary.
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Without Jesus Christ man must be in vice and misery with Jesus Christ man is free from vice and misery in Him is all our virtue and all our happiness. Apart from Him there is but vice, misery, darkness, death, despair.
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All the maxims have been written. It only remains to put them into practice.
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What a vast difference there is between knowing God and loving Him.
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