Curiosity is only vanity. We usually only want to know something so that we can talk about it.
BLAISE PASCALHaving been unable to strengthen justice, we have justified strength.
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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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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 strength of a man’s virtue should not be measured by his special exertions, but by his habitual acts.
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Nothing gives rest but the sincere search for truth.
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Don’t try to add more years to your life. Better add more life to your years.
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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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Lord, help me to do great things as though they were little, since I do them with your power; And little things as though they were great, since I do them in your name!
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The more intelligent a man is, the more originality he discovers in others.
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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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Nothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest, without a passion, without business, without entertainment, without care.
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Having been unable to strengthen justice, we have justified strength.
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There is a God-shaped vacuum in every heart.
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Happiness is neither within us, nor without us. It is in the union of ourselves with God.
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Kind words do not cost much. They never blister the tongue or lips. They make other people good-natured. They also produce their own image on men’s souls, and a beautiful image it is.
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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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