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.
BLAISE PASCALWe should seek the truth without hesitation; and, if we refuse it, we show that we value the esteem of men more than the search for truth.
More Blaise Pascal Quotes
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We should seek the truth without hesitation; and, if we refuse it, we show that we value the esteem of men more than the search for truth.
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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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Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.
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All our dignity lies in our thoughts.
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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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We like to be deceived.
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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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Mankind suffers from two excesses: to exclude reason, and to live by nothing but reason.
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If you want others to have a good opinion of you, say nothing.
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If you do not love too much, you do not love enough.
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I bring you the gift of these four words: I believe in you.
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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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Silence. All human unhappiness comes from not knowing how to stay quietly in a room.
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If I believe in God and life after death and you do not, and if there is no God, we both lose when we die. However, if there is a God, you still lose and I gain everything.
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