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Curiosity is only vanity. We usually only want to know something so that we can talk about it.

Blaise Pascal

Distraction is the only thing that consoles us for our miseries. Yet it is itself the greatest of our miseries.
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Greatness Misery Ourselves
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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Greatness Inspirational Love Passion
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
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
Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.
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Accomplishment Character Kindness
If you want others to have a good opinion of you, say nothing.
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Opinion Talk Yourself
If I had more time I would write a shorter letter.
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Inspirational Letter Writing
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
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
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
Silence. All human unhappiness comes from not knowing how to stay quietly in a room.
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Happiness Human Quiet Silence
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
Mutual cheating is the foundation of society.
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Cheat Foundation
The strength of a man’s virtue should not be measured by his special exertions, but by his habitual acts.
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Act Inspirational Strength Wisdom
Great and small suffer the same mishaps.
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Greatness Small Suffering
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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