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Everyone, without exception, is searching for happiness.

Blaise Pascal

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
Plurality which is not reduced to unity is confusion; unity which does not depend on plurality is tyranny.
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Confusion Unity
There is a God shaped vacuum in the heart of every man which cannot be filled by any created thing, but only by God, the Creator, made known through Jesus.
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Creation God Man Spiritual
Curiosity is only vanity. We usually only want to know something so that we can talk about it.
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Curiosity Pride Talk Vanity
Silence. All human unhappiness comes from not knowing how to stay quietly in a room.
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Happiness Human Quiet Silence
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
Faith is different from proof; the latter is human, the former is a Gift from God.
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Different Faith Gift God Human
All men’s miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.
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Inspirational Man Misery Peace
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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Darkness Death Men Vice Victory
The supreme function of reason is to show man that some things are beyond reason.
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Beyond Logic Men Reason
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
How hollow is the heart of man, and how full of excrement!
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Heart Hollow Men
Fear not, provided you fear; but if you fear not, then fear.
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Fear Yourself
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
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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Eyes People Reality Satisfaction
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

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