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.
BLAISE PASCALIt’s not those who write the laws that have the greatest impact on society. It’s those who write the songs.
More Blaise Pascal Quotes
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Wisdom leads us back to childhood.
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The Christian religion teaches me two points-that there is a God whom men can know, and that their nature is so corrupt that they are unworthy of Him.
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Most of man’s trouble comes from his inability to be still.
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Man’s sensitivity to the little things and insensitivity to the greatest are the signs of a strange disorder.
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Having been unable to strengthen justice, we have justified strength.
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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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All of our reasoning ends in surrender to feeling.
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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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All the trouble in the world is due to the fact that man cannot sit still in a room.
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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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Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.
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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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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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