Justice without force is powerless; force without justice is tyrannical.
BLAISE PASCALOne-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.
More Blaise Pascal Quotes
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I bring you the gift of these four words: I believe in you.
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Good deeds, when concealed, are the most admirable.
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We like to be deceived.
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Fear not, provided you fear; but if you fear not, then fear.
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Evil is easy, and has infinite forms.
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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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Everyone, without exception, is searching for happiness.
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The entire ocean is affected by a single pebble.
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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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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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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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All men’s miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.
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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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The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of, We know the truth not only by the reason, but by the heart.
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All of our reasoning ends in surrender to feeling.
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