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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.

Blaise Pascal

If you want others to have a good opinion of you, say nothing.
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Opinion Talk Yourself
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
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
Don’t try to add more years to your life. Better add more life to your years.
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Death Life Suicide
We must learn our limits. We are all something, but none of us are everything.
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Human Limitation Wisdom
Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary.
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Extraordinary Greatness Ordinary Wisdom
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
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
Man is obviously made for thinking. Therein lies all his dignity and his merit; and his whole duty is to think as he ought.
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Lying Men Thinking
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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Men Seek Truth Value
There are only two kinds of men: the righteous who think they are sinners and the sinners who think they are righteous.
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Deep Human Live Men Sin Thinking
Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it.
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Establishment Love Spiritual Time Truth
Having been unable to strengthen justice, we have justified strength.
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Justice Strength
All of our reasoning ends in surrender to feeling.
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Alone Feeling Let Go Reason
Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.
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Accomplishment Character Kindness
Silence. All human unhappiness comes from not knowing how to stay quietly in a room.
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Happiness Human Quiet Silence

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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