All the maxims have been written. It only remains to put them into practice.
BLAISE PASCALClarity 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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Nothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest, without a passion, without business, without entertainment, without care.
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Nothing gives rest but the sincere search for truth.
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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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Plurality which is not reduced to unity is confusion; unity which does not depend on plurality is tyranny.
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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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Faith is different from proof; the latter is human, the former is a Gift from God.
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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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When intuition and logic agree, you are always right.
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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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The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
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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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Most of man’s trouble comes from his inability to be still.
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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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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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Having been unable to strengthen justice, we have justified strength.
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If a man is not made for God, why is he happy only in God?
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In difficult times carry something beautiful in your heart.
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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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Curiosity is only vanity. We usually only want to know something so that we can talk about it.
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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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All our dignity lies in our thoughts.
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Justice without force is powerless; force without justice is tyrannical.
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Happiness is neither within us, nor without us. It is in the union of ourselves with God.
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We never love a person, but only qualities.
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All men’s miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.
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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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