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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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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Faith is a gift of God.
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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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Imagination decides everything.
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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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Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary.
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Most of man’s trouble comes from his inability to be still.
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Once your soul has been enlarged by a truth, it can never return to its original size.
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We like to be deceived.
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Don’t try to add more years to your life. Better add more life to your years.
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Faith is different from proof; the latter is human, the former is a Gift from God.
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The strength of a man’s virtue should not be measured by his special exertions, but by his habitual acts.
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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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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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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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Evil is easy, and has infinite forms.
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Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.
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If you do not love too much, you do not love enough.
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Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.
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In difficult times carry something beautiful in your heart.
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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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The more I see of Mankind, the more I prefer my dog.
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The entire ocean is affected by a single pebble.
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Good deeds, when concealed, are the most admirable.
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All the maxims have been written. It only remains to put them into practice.
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If I had more time I would write a shorter letter.
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