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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More Blaise Pascal Quotes
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Do you wish people to think well of you? Don’t speak well of yourself.
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Kind words do not cost much. They never blister the tongue or lips. They make other people good-natured. They also produce their own image on men’s souls, and a beautiful image it is.
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The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
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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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How hollow is the heart of man, and how full of excrement!
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If I had more time I would write a shorter letter.
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Man’s greatness lies in his power of thought.
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All the trouble in the world is due to the fact that man cannot sit still in a room.
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Human beings must be known to be loved; but Divine beings must be loved to be known.
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We never love a person, but only qualities.
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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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And is it not obvious that, just as it is a crime to disturb the peace when truth reigns, it is also a crime to remain at peace when the truth is being destroyed?
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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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Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it.
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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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