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If you want others to have a good opinion of you, say nothing.

Blaise Pascal

Silence. All human unhappiness comes from not knowing how to stay quietly in a room.
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Happiness Human Quiet Silence
Fear not, provided you fear; but if you fear not, then fear.
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Fear Yourself
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
Don’t try to add more years to your life. Better add more life to your years.
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Death Life Suicide
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
Mutual cheating is the foundation of society.
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Cheat Foundation
Do you wish people to think well of you? Don’t speak well of yourself.
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Humble Humility People Praise Thinking
How hollow is the heart of man, and how full of excrement!
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Heart Hollow Men
If you want others to have a good opinion of you, say nothing.
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Opinion Talk Yourself
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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God Happiness Ourselves
Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary.
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Extraordinary Greatness Ordinary Wisdom
Love knows no limit to its endurance, no end to its trust, no fading of its hope; it can outlast anything. Love still stands when all else has fallen.
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Endurance Fade Limitation
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
I rather live as if God exists to find out that He doesn’t than live as if he doesn’t exist to find out He does.
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Existence God Himself Live Myself
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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Crime Destroy Peace Truth
We must learn our limits. We are all something, but none of us are everything.
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Human Limitation Wisdom
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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Heart Reason Truth
Happiness is neither within us, nor without us. It is in the union of ourselves with God.
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God Happiness Ourselves Spiritual
Man’s greatness lies in his power of thought.
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Greatness Lying Man Power
We like to be deceived.
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One Liner Trust
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
Faith is a sounder guide than reason. Reason can only go so far, but faith has no limits.
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Faith Limitation Reason
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
Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.
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Accomplishment Character Kindness
If I had more time I would write a shorter letter.
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Inspirational Letter Writing
It’s not those who write the laws that have the greatest impact on society. It’s those who write the songs.
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Law Song Worth Writing
The supreme function of reason is to show man that some things are beyond reason.
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Beyond Logic Men Reason

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