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.
BLAISE PASCALIf you do not love too much, you do not love enough.
More Blaise Pascal Quotes
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All our dignity lies in our thoughts.
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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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Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.
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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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If you do not love too much, you do not love enough.
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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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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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Human beings must be known to be loved; but Divine beings must be loved to be known.
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Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary.
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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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Curiosity is only vanity. We usually only want to know something so that we can talk about it.
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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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Happiness is neither within us, nor without us. It is in the union of ourselves with God.
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If I had more time I would write a shorter letter.
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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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