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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
All the maxims have been written. It only remains to put them into practice.
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Practice Writing
Do you wish people to think well of you? Don’t speak well of yourself.
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Humble Humility People Praise Thinking
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
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
We are not satisfied with real life; we want to live some imaginary life in the eyes of other people and to seem different from what we actually are.
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Eyes People Reality Satisfaction
All our dignity lies in our thoughts.
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Dignity Lying Thinking
Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.
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Evil Inspirational Religious Sad
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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Lying Men Thinking
I bring you the gift of these four words: I believe in you.
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Believe Gift Myself
In difficult times carry something beautiful in your heart.
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Beautiful Difficult Hard Time Heart Time
The supreme function of reason is to show man that some things are beyond reason.
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Beyond Logic Men Reason
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
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
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
If a man is not made for God, why is he happy only in God?
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Faith God Happiness Men
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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Darkness Death Men Vice Victory
If I had more time I would write a shorter letter.
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Inspirational Letter Writing
The Christian religion teaches me two points-that there is a God whom men can know, and that their nature is so corrupt that they are unworthy of Him.
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God Men Nature Religion Worth
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
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
We must learn our limits. We are all something, but none of us are everything.
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Human Limitation Wisdom
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
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
All men’s miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.
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Inspirational Man Misery Peace
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
What a vast difference there is between knowing God and loving Him.
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Difference God Himself Love

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