Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.
BLAISE PASCALHuman 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.
More Blaise Pascal Quotes
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Faith is a gift of God.
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How hollow is the heart of man, and how full of excrement!
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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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When intuition and logic agree, you are always right.
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Great and small suffer the same mishaps.
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Love has reasons which reason cannot understand.
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Man’s greatness lies in his power of thought.
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Wisdom leads us back to childhood.
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I bring you the gift of these four words: I believe in you.
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Justice without force is powerless; force without justice is tyrannical.
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Mutual cheating is the foundation of society.
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Mankind suffers from two excesses: to exclude reason, and to live by nothing but reason.
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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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The strength of a man’s virtue should not be measured by his special exertions, but by his habitual acts.
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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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