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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.

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
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
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
The supreme function of reason is to show man that some things are beyond reason.
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Beyond Logic Men Reason
Fear not, provided you fear; but if you fear not, then fear.
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Fear Yourself
It is the heart which perceives God and not the reason. That is what faith is: God perceived by the heart, not by the reason.
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Existence Faith God Heart Reason
Having been unable to strengthen justice, we have justified strength.
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Justice Strength
Once your soul has been enlarged by a truth, it can never return to its original size.
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Investment Soul Truth Yourself
What a vast difference there is between knowing God and loving Him.
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Difference God Himself Love
Distraction is the only thing that consoles us for our miseries. Yet it is itself the greatest of our miseries.
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Greatness Misery Ourselves
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
Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too; this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and sees distinctly what it loves.
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Greatness Inspirational Love Passion
Don’t try to add more years to your life. Better add more life to your years.
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Death Life Suicide
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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Believe God Life Philosophy Spiritual
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
Most of man’s trouble comes from his inability to be still.
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Ability Men Trouble

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