Happiness can be found neither in ourselves nor in external things, but in God and in ourselves as united to him.
BLAISE PASCALWe like to be deceived.
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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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Mutual cheating is the foundation of society.
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Faith is different from proof; the latter is human, the former is a Gift from God.
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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 supreme function of reason is to show man that some things are beyond reason.
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Mankind suffers from two excesses: to exclude reason, and to live by nothing but reason.
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We like to be deceived.
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Everyone, without exception, is searching for happiness.
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Man is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness from which he emerges and the infinity in which he is engulfed.
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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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Plurality which is not reduced to unity is confusion; unity which does not depend on plurality is tyranny.
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Nothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest, without a passion, without business, without entertainment, without care.
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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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Wisdom leads us back to childhood.
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All men’s miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.
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