If you want others to have a good opinion of you, say nothing.
BLAISE PASCALMankind suffers from two excesses: to exclude reason, and to live by nothing but reason.
More Blaise Pascal Quotes
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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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The supreme function of reason is to show man that some things are beyond reason.
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Justice without force is powerless; force without justice is tyrannical.
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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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Faith is different from proof; the latter is human, the former is a Gift from God.
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All the maxims have been written. It only remains to put them into practice.
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Faith is a sounder guide than reason. Reason can only go so far, but faith has no limits.
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Silence. All human unhappiness comes from not knowing how to stay quietly in a room.
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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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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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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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The more I see of Mankind, the more I prefer my dog.
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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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Great and small suffer the same mishaps.
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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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