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Man’s sensitivity to the little things and insensitivity to the greatest are the signs of a strange disorder.

Blaise Pascal

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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Crime Destroy Peace Truth
People almost invariably arrive at their beliefs not on the basis of proof but on the basis of what they find attractive.
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Attraction Belief People
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
Faith is a sounder guide than reason. Reason can only go so far, but faith has no limits.
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Faith Limitation Reason
Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.
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Accomplishment Character Kindness
Mankind suffers from two excesses: to exclude reason, and to live by nothing but reason.
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Live Man Reason Suffering
Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.
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Evil Inspirational Religious Sad
Happiness is neither within us, nor without us. It is in the union of ourselves with God.
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God Happiness Ourselves Spiritual
In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don’t.
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Believe Faith Life Light
Evil is easy, and has infinite forms.
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Easy Evil Infinite
Having been unable to strengthen justice, we have justified strength.
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Justice Strength
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
Human beings must be known to be loved; but Divine beings must be loved to be known.
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Divine Human Love Religion
Great and small suffer the same mishaps.
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Greatness Small Suffering
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
How hollow is the heart of man, and how full of excrement!
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Heart Hollow Men
Love has reasons which reason cannot understand.
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Love Reason Understand
If a man is not made for God, why is he happy only in God?
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Faith God Happiness Men
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
Happiness can be found neither in ourselves nor in external things, but in God and in ourselves as united to him.
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God Happiness Ourselves
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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Doubt Life Need Possible Reality
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
All of our reasoning ends in surrender to feeling.
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Alone Feeling Let Go Reason
Justice without force is powerless; force without justice is tyrannical.
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Force Justice Power Strength
All the maxims have been written. It only remains to put them into practice.
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Practice Writing
There is a God-shaped vacuum in every heart.
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God Heart Spiritual
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

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